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There is an immediate sense of change afoot in “Computer Chess,” Andrew Bujalski‘s fourth feature as writer-director, visible to anyone familiar with his previous work. While Bujalski’s influential ...

Maybe it has to do with having programmed a computer in high school in the first half of the seventies—a computer the size of a double-wide fridge and covered with blinking lights. Our after-school ...

As a traveler in Europe during the Middle Ages, you’d probably be able to find a good game of chess wherever you went. It was also likely that every game would be played on a different type of set.