Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with computers playing chess.

World Chess Champion D Gukesh and World Junior Chess Champion Pranav Venkatesh are from the same school and were classmates ...

After interacting with chess computers, Hassabis went on to experiment with AI programming at home. Demis Hassabis's first love wasn't AI — it was chess. Decades before the Google DeepMind CEO ...