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.
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 ...
Kasparov was defeated in 1997 by Deep Blue, and in the modern era, just about every computer has a default chess game program squirreled away somewhere. Anyone can play chess with a real or AI ...
play the game far better than any unaided human being. The watershed moment in computerized chess came in 1997 when the world champion, Garry Kasparov, was defeated by a computer called Deep Blue.
which he says is not just another chess app. Rather than offering users a chance to play, it provides daily tournament recap videos and analyses player performance during major tournaments.