On the surface, the question “Why can’t computers play chess?” is ridiculous. Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov back in 1997. Deep Blue, the IBM Computer, won 2 games, Kasparov, the reigning world ...

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? 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 ...

I'm not sure how many of you play chess computers, but I assume there's a good number of you here that do play chess (as can be seen by other topics on this board), and hopefully most of those that do ...

"I got checkmated in 34 moves." Levy Rozman a.k.a. GothamChess plays chess against Stockfish 16, the strongest chess computer in the world, and analyzes the way it thinks in order to apply it to his ...

In late November, the latest official world chess championship match was staged in a large hall in the Olympic city of Sochi, Russia. The games were broadcast on the Internet with live commentary and ...

I have been playing a little bit of chess on iPad recently (read GESC chess tournament announcement, stickied at the top - and sign up) and I haven't played chess in a long time. My chess senses are ...