IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10 ... Kasparov triumphed in three of the following games and drew the remaining two.

Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...

The Pi handles chess tasks—checking the validity of moves, acting as a computer opponent, and connecting online for games against other humans if so desired. Everything is wrapped up with 3D ...

Using a database of tens of thousands of top-level games, Kenneth Regan, himself an international chess master, has devised a program that can help determine whether a player is playing like a human ...

When the talk turns to the Sochi Olympics, he refers back to the German games of 1936 ... the man who beat the first sophisticated chess computer, IBM’s Deep Blue, and then, in what many ...