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 ...

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 ...

For a few days, chess fans could be forgiven for wondering if the end of the game was in sight. At the World Chess Championships in Dubai last week, reigning champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway and ...

Army Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS) is increasing use of commercial software for acquisition and contracting professionals. Working in conjunction with Army Contracting ...

We’ve all seen those chess computers that consist out of a physical playing field, and a built-in computer that would indicate where you should put its pieces while inputting the position of your ...

Demis Hassabis's first love wasn't AI — it was chess. Decades before the Google DeepMind CEO would be co-awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — thanks to helping develop an AI tool that predicted ...

I've always enjoyed chess but was never very good at it. No matter how many games I played against friends or online opponents, I was stuck at the same mediocre skill level. So I went looking for ways ...

Computer chess is computer architecture encompassing hardware and software capable of playing chess autonomously without human guidance. Computer chess acts as solo entertainment (allowing players to ...