Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that ...

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 ...

The Chinese Xiangqi Association has issued lifetime bans to top players Wang Tianyi and Wang Yuefei for match-fixing and ...

It's no secret that computers can smoke humans at chess. And now, as if to further mock our mere organic forms, scientists say they've created a computer made out of DNA that can play the board ...

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 ...

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Bill Walton had a similar obsession, but instead of golf, it was chess. As peculiar as it sounds, his Boston Celtics ...

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training ...

Richard Powers' latest novel brims with love for humanity and the planet. He makes clear that while humans have made this ...

T HE GRANDMASTER sits at the pinnacle of chess. The title evokes excellence and experience, a garland for someone who has ...

Spread This NewsBy Staff Reporter Zimbabwe Chess Federation team shined at the 45th Chess Olympiad held in Budapest, Hungary ...

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 ...