He was off by three decades. More important, however, his prediction of how computers would solve chess proved to be entirely wrong -- to artificial intelligence’s enduring chagrin.

For years, powerful chess computers have been crucial partners for the game’s best minds. Ever since then-champion Garry Kasparov lost a match in 1997 against an IBM supercomputer, chess ...

advertisement 06-09-2016 INFOGRAPHIC OF THE DAY This Is Why Computers Crush You In Chess The Thinking Machine visualizes how a computer plays the game of kings.

The IBM 704 is the turning point in this story. Once it had been proven that computers could play chess against humans, it because a question of when, not if, they could beat us.

They would teach us more about chess. They haven't lived up to their side of the bargain." The real payoff from teaching computers to play chess may not have anything to do with the game.

Game 3 of the World Chess Championship in London, like the two games that came before it, ended in a draw — 49 moves and a touch more than four hours. The best… ...

Susan Polgar is a grandmaster and a six-time national collegiate champion chess coach. Computers do all that retreating, she says, because they're not slaves to human nature.

What can the introduction of AI and computers into the chess world tell us about the future of technology in the manufacturing workforce? Will robots, automation and AI eliminate the need for the ...

Computers may have gotten better at chess, but human players can still find chinks in their defense, the world chess champion says. Just don't try to break them down psychologically. Ever since ...

Essences of gnarly, complex positions can, like painting, be distilled and altered and presented in pure form. My progression mirrors how we taught our computers to play chess.

In Chess, Qualified Respect for Computers By Michael Hiltzik Sept. 26, 2005 12 AM PT ...