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

If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into pl… ...

Garry Kasparov bests Deep Blue, the IBM computer programmed to play chess, in match play in February 1996. A year later, an updated version of Deep Blue would beat the world champion. Ten years ...

World chess champion Magnes Carlsen (right) won't play his computer or play the game like a computer. Instead, he chooses his strategy based on what he knows about his opponent.

Computers have revolutionised the way chess is played – and the best chess programs are impossible to beat. But could a player that’s part human and part computer be even more powerful? It all ...

Computers Are Great at Chess, But That Doesn’t Mean the Game Is ‘Solved’ On this day in 1996, the computer Deep Blue made history when it beat Garry Kasparov ...

World chess champion Magnes Carlsen (right) won't play his computer or play the game like a computer. Instead, he chooses his strategy based on what he knows about his opponent.

Computing, as a science and an industry, has always been intimately connected with games, and with none more so than chess. In Chess, Qualified Respect for Computers - Los Angeles Times ...

Until 1980, users of chess computers had to move the computer’s pieces by hand. The introduction of the Boris Handroid, an extremely rare unit with a robotic arm, changed that.

I invite you to visit tcec-chess.com, home to an online arena called the Top Chess Engine Championship.Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, elite computer chess programs — with names such ...