World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game to IBM-developed supercomputer Deep Blue. This defining moment in ...

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 ...

Now, Barthelmey has taken things one step further by publishing a new paper in the journal Physical Review E that treats ...

While chess games might be a niche item, neural networks that can deduce complex evaluation functions have wide applicability in fields ranging from computer vision, stock market prediction ...

A game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the ...

And then from there we can program our new computer to play chess. So let's get started. (Some people may say I have an unhealthy obsession with building weird computers, c.f. my game of life ...

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 ...

This smart chess board blends the tactile joy of in-person play with the global reach of online opponents.