Murray Campbell of IBM was part of the Deep Blue project. As he says, chess computers do play differently. They make moves that sometimes make no sense to their human opponents.

Regan acknowledges that, without those computers, known as chess engines, his model would not work. Of course, without those same engines, many players would struggle to cheat in the first place.

In chess circles, that name has long carried significant weight. Gary Kasparov became a world chess champion in 1985 and ...

Chess is flipping our intuitions about creativity and automation inside out: Computers don’t just execute ideas but conceive them, such that to describe a human player as “machinelike” doesn ...

OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major AI chatbot competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Now add to that list the Atari ...

Chess computers fail at Penrose’s chess puzzle because they have a database of end-games to choose from. This board is not, Tagg and Penrose believe, in the computer’s playbook.

AI not so new in chess. Computers have been an integral part of chess since 1997. Back then, the IBM mainframe computer Deep Blue beat the then-world champion Gary Kasparov.

“When chess computers finally came of age, I was Mt. Everest, and Deep Blue reached the summit.” Kasparov said. “I should say of course, not that Deep Blue did it, ...

By rewarding computers that combined different approaches to solve chess puzzles, Google created an enhanced AI that could defeat its existing champion, AlphaZero.