Computers have been beating humans at chess for decades, and they’re now so predictably good at it that chess grandmasters won’t even bother to compete against them. But in what feels like a gesture ...

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 game — ...

Chess is an old game, going back more than 1,500 years. Traditionally a two-player game, the modern chess tournament began in the second half of the 19th century. In the last 100 years, there have ...

My chess board collects dust at home. It’s a game I have loved playing ever since my father taught it to me at a young age, but over the past few years, it has been tough finding opponents within my ...

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It will come as no surprise that I was a member of the chess club and that I've played "The Game of Kings" for almost six decades. Digital Chess has been a part of my life for almost as long, starting ...

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 ...

If you are searching for a chess computer to help refine your strategies, you may be interested in a new chess clock created by Corvi Adinventio, which combines the best of both into one smart chess ...

Thanks to over 3,000 backers a new electronic, connected chess computer and board have taken Kickstarter by storm raising over $900,000 with still 24 days remaining. ChessUp is a new chess computer ...

In what may be one of the bigger achievements in artificial intelligence since IBM's Deep Blue computer beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, a computer program developed by the British AI ...