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

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 ...

If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play.

Just like any retiree, former Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto is spending his days perfecting his hobbies − specifically chess. And now you can play against him. On Monday, Chess.com ...

Google says its AlphaGo Zero artificial intelligence program has triumphed at chess against world ... of the Chinese board game Go, as well as teaching itself how to play video games including ...

An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. A co-lead at Google's Big Picture data visualization group has created an online version of chess called the Thinking Machine 6, which lets ...

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 ...