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 ...

Over the years, chess engines have evolved from simple programs that could barely challenge a beginner ... to playing against ...

Chess: a world of just sixty-four squares and thirty-two pieces, and yet a world of limitless opportunity. It has often been ...

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.

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training ...

Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) recently introduced a new open-source robotic system that can play chess against a human ... connected to a computer, an NVIDIA Jetson ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that ...

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 ...

In our search for the best online broker for beginners, Forbes Advisor evaluated 21 brokers. In side-by-side comparisons, we assessed the user friendliness of each broker’s platforms ...

In a dramatic move, an International Chess Federation (Fide) general assembly meeting in Budapest voted to maintain sanctions ...

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One of his investments was ChessPark, a site he cofounded that enabled users to play against a computer, other people, or even celebrities in the chess world. RZA had grown up poor on Staten ...