A lot of computers can play chess. [Matthew Lui’s] Giraffe is a chess playing computer, but unlike other common chess programs, Giraffe taught itself to play. It apparently learned pretty well ...

Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with computers playing chess.

Believe it or not, there were even chess championships between chess-playing computers like the Challenger. In 1980, the Challenger won first place in the 1st World Microcomputer Chess Championship.

Albert Keung, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University explained: ...

In the modern age, chess computers, which are easily accessible through mobile electronic devices, play the game far better than any unaided human being. The watershed moment in computerised chess ...

When Magnus Carlsen started playing chess at the age of eight, he grew up in “a hybrid generation,” mainly playing on the ...

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IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The 1980s was arguably the coolest decade of the 20th century. If it wasn't the wacky, colorful fashion, then it was the movies and the ...

Kirill Shevchenko, a grandmaster who represents Romania, has been accused of getting assistance from a computer in the middle of games. By Victor Mather A top chess player was expelled from an ...