Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. It’s no ...

Like many, I have been watching the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, and it got me to think about the status of chess today. I remember in 1997 when IBM's chess computer Big Blue beat reigning world ...

For a few days, chess fans could be forgiven for wondering if the end of the game was in sight. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. At ...

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. That ...

Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, ...

Computing, as a science and an industry, has always been intimately connected with games, and with none more so than chess. The quest to build a computer grandmaster has helped bring focus to ...

Oliver Roeder is a journalist, author and games player. He is a former senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, where he covered the World Chess Championship and other gaming pursuits. The following is ...

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 ...

On the surface, the question “Why can’t computers play chess?” is ridiculous. Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov back in 1997. Deep Blue, the IBM Computer, won 2 games, Kasparov, the reigning world ...