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 ...

Nicholas Carlini wrote a 2-ply minimax chess engine with 84,688 regular expressions. It's not a massive mangled choose-your-own adventure through common openings made of if conditions: it follows ...

Can a machine be made to think creatively? 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 ...

Demis Hassabis, a childhood chess prodigy, said his experience with the game afforded him his first brush with AI. He was ...

The chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov sat down with Business Insider for a lengthy discussion about advances in artificial intelligence since he first lost a match to the IBM chess machine Deep ...

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 ...

Magnus Carlsen may be the best chess player in the world, but the Norwegian has ruled out a return to the classical World ...