Hey, I’m Zachary but please call me Zach! I do anything and everything that has to do with chess and make my analysis ...

In chess circles, that name has long carried significant weight. Gary Kasparov became a world chess champion in 1985 and ...

The great contest of man-versus-computer chess is over. “Today, for $50, you can buy a home PC program that will crush most grandmasters,” Kasparov wrote.

World chess champion Magnes Carlsen (right) won't play his computer or play the game like a computer. Instead, he chooses his strategy based on what he knows about his opponent.

Garry Kasparov bests Deep Blue, the IBM computer programmed to play chess, in match play in February 1996. A year later, an updated version of Deep Blue would beat the world champion. Ten years ...

Computers have revolutionised the way chess is played – and the best chess programs are impossible to beat. But could a player that’s part human and part computer be even more powerful? It all ...

Until 1980, users of chess computers had to move the computer’s pieces by hand. The introduction of the Boris Handroid, an extremely rare unit with a robotic arm, changed that.

I invite you to visit tcec-chess.com, home to an online arena called the Top Chess Engine Championship.Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, elite computer chess programs — with names such ...

Computer chess programs can handily beat the best human players in the world—and their games are no less fascinating.

Andrew Bujalski’s latest, about a weekend chess tournament between man and machine, was shot with clunky video equipment from the same bygone era it portrays. Computer Chess: Sundance Review ...