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 ...

We certainly needed the challenge. Chess computers, in particular, have exposed our complacency. Grandmasters used to dismiss computers as calculators, unfit for elite competition. Our vanity was ...

Commercial programs contributed to the demand for the first personal computers in the 1980s. So it’s not surprising that eight years after IBM’s Deep Blue chess computer defeated world ...

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 ...

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 ...