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After hosting more than 50 chess events this year at suburban schools, community centers, and temples, Aditya Gupta is working on taking his game to the next level. The senior at Fremd High School in ...

This story originally published in December 2020. The cracks in Garry Kasparov’s armor began to show around move 13 of his first encounter with Deep Blue. The IBM supercomputer had been under ...

Could the world’s greatest super-computer outsmart the world’s greatest chess player? That was the question when IBM’s Deep Blue chess machine (which could analyze 200 million positions per second) ...

Five years ago, in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, stood the Eden Musee, noted for its wax figures of history’s horrible episodes and its automatic checker player. This machine, mathematically ...