There is an immediate sense of change afoot in “Computer Chess,” Andrew Bujalski ‘s fourth feature as writer-director, visible to anyone familiar with his previous work. While Bujalski’s ...

Once computers were reliably beating grandmasters, cheating-by-computer became a serious threat, Emil Sutovsky, the director general of the International Chess Federation, told me.

Chess enthusiasts watch World Chess champion Garry Kasparov on a television monitor as he holds his head in his hands at the start of the sixth and final match against IBM's Deep Blue computer in ...

Shot with a boxy, old Sony Portapak video cam, Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess is a deadpan mock-documentary about an early-’80s gathering of programming nerds, arguing about AI and ...

For decades, computer scientists considered chess — a quintessential game of foresight, strategy and logic — the ultimate test of artificial intelligence. Most researchers at the time believed ...

Nowadays, humans are mincemeat to a good computer chess engine. Campbell still works at IBM Research, where he’s won the company chess tournament the last two years in a row.

This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and shogi -- in just a few hours, a new study reports.