Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really ... and pegs represented pieces. There were mechanical arms to move the pegs.

Of course, the tricky part is explaining the whole corporeal thing to a piece of software on your computer. Enter the “Chess Challenger” by [slash/byte]. Modeled after a commercial gadget of ...

One reply is: First, can a machine be made to play a good game of chess? How a computer was programmed so that it could defeat an inexperienced human opponent ...

Tamerlan has developed an automated chessboard that moves pieces around the board. This chess board is programmed with ...

The chess world erupted over a cheeky joke from Chess.com asking players for “new name ideas” for one of the game’s pieces.

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 ...