In chess circles, that name has long carried significant weight. Gary Kasparov became a world chess champion in 1985 and ...

I'm an older individual, and I admit I get a secret feeling of satisfaction when I see a young whippersnapper get served ...

How one computer taught itself to be a chess ‘international master’ in 72 hours A new computer program called Giraffe plays chess with help from artificial intelligence.

If you’ve ever played chess or even checkers, you’ve probably thought about making a board that lets a computer play you without having to enter your moves and look at the board on a screen.

The computer takeover of chess occurred, at least in the popular imagination, 25 years ago, when the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated world champion Garry Kasparov.

When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk.". In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and ...