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 ...

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

Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...

An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. A co-lead at Google's Big Picture data visualization group has created an online version of chess called the Thinking Machine 6, which lets ...

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 ...