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.

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 ...

This month’s world chess championship won’t feature five-time winner Magnus Carlsen, who has left the pinnacle of the ...

One reply is: First, can a machine be made to play a good game of chess? How a computer was programmed so that it could defeat an inexperienced human opponent ...

Chess Universe, the first free-to-play (F2P) casual chess mobile non-fungible token-based game, is launching exclusively on ...

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 ...

Computers have invaded the game but we still see some 150-odd youngsters outside the Dhono Dhanyo Auditorium waiting for a ...

When Magnus Carlsen started playing chess at the age of eight, he grew up in “a hybrid generation,” mainly playing on the board, he tells Euronews Next in an interview. Fast forward 25 years ...

Using a database of tens of thousands of top-level games, Kenneth Regan, himself an international chess master, has devised a program that can help determine whether a player is playing like a human ...