Two decades later, computers now regularly beat humans at chess, writes Klint Finley for Wired. The great contest of man-versus-computer chess is over. “Today, for $50, ...

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 ...

Computing, as a science and an industry, has always been intimately connected with games, and with none more so than chess. In Chess, Qualified Respect for Computers - Los Angeles Times ...

There was a time, not long ago, when computers—mere assemblages of silicon and wire and plastic that can fly planes, drive cars, translate languages, and keep failing hearts beating—could ...

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"Computer Chess" makes an affecting preservationist plea, in this case for a visual and material culture that, while not objectively beautiful, possessed its own form of buttoned-down passion ...

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.

How computers changed chess Published: November 28, 2013 10:23pm EST. Guillermo Campitelli, Edith Cowan University. Author. Guillermo Campitelli ...

Magnus Carlsen's success in the world chess championship illustrates a paradoxical development: Chess-playing computers, far from revealing the limits of human ability, have actually pushed it to ...