Albert Keung, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University explained: ...

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 playing chess.

In the modern age, chess computers, which are easily accessible through mobile electronic devices, play the game far better than any unaided human being. The watershed moment in computerised chess ...

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 playing chess.

Computer chess acts as solo entertainment (allowing players to practice and to better themselves when no sufficiently strong human opponents are available), as aids to chess analysis, for computer ...