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 ... outperform even the best human minds in complex ...

If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing ... the chess community will go to perfect the Game of Kings.

The problem, he has said, is that computer analysis has turned the opening phase of the game into ... is best. Instead, the tournament will use what it calls “freestyle” chess, and what ...

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? 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 ...