Now that everyone of means walks around with a pocket computer that can access most human knowledge in a matter of seconds, it might be tough for some to recall a time in which computing was the ...

Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15 years. It’s ...

The self-taught chess engine, known as “Giraffe,” was designed by graduate student Matthew Lai. Computers can already squash human opponents at chess by using their great computational speed to ...

When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is “The Turk.” In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and diplomat ...

The Picochess chess program already has a long and storied history behind it—something you should be aware of if you’re ...