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.

A lot of computers can play chess. [Matthew Lui’s] Giraffe is a chess playing computer, but unlike other common chess programs, Giraffe taught itself to play. It apparently learned pretty well ...

Albert Keung, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University explained: ...

Chess is the world’s favorite board game, with an estimated 605 million players globally, thanks to studies by FIDE and ...

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

Computers have invaded the game but we still see some 150-odd youngsters outside the Dhono Dhanyo Auditorium waiting for a ...