People have been interested in chess-playing computers before there were any chess-playing computers. In a 1950 paper, [Claude Shannon] defined two major chess-playing strategies. Apparently ...

It was a pivotal moment in computing, one that changed both computers and chess forever. Two decades later, computers now regularly beat humans at chess, writes Klint Finley for Wired. The great ...

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?

Computers have been able to beat humans at chess for quite some time now, which is really no surprise. Modern computers are exceptionally good at calculating large amounts of data, which makes ...

Personal computers were just over a decade old, and looked liked this. Commercial companies had begun providing Internet access to the general public only the year before. Chess required guile ...

In the years since, computers have built on Deep Blue's 1997 breakthrough to the point where the battle between humans and machines is not even close. Even chess grandmasters like author and ...

is the central role played by computers. Before the computer era, understanding the games of the world championships was difficult even for strong club chess players. Nowadays, it is possible to ...

Once computers were reliably beating grandmasters, cheating-by-computer became a serious threat, Emil Sutovsky, the director general of the International Chess Federation, told me. The federation ...

Credit: Mashable Yet: scientists at the newly-formed Penrose Institute say it’s not only possible, but that human players see the solution almost instantly, while chess computers consistently ...