The grandmasters who led the U.S. chess team to fifth place in the World Chess Olympiad drew on years of experience, hours of preparation and a super computer half a world away from Istanbul.

There was a time, not long ago, when computers—mere assemblages of silicon and wire and plastic that can fly planes, drive cars, translate languages, and keep failing hearts beating—could ...

Chess is an old game, going back more than 1,500 years. Traditionally a two-player game, the modern chess tournament began in the second half of the 19th century. In the last 100 years, there have ...

This enabled it to win the 1989 World Computer Chess Championship without losing a single game. But Deep Thought hit a road block later that year when it came up against (and lost to) the reigning ...

It comes as no huge surprise that the latest iteration in the long-running Chessmaster series once again seizes the title of computer chess champion - in the past several years, the Chessmaster ...

Computers Are Great at Chess, But That Doesn’t Mean the Game Is ‘Solved’ On this day in 1996, the computer Deep Blue made history when it beat Garry Kasparov Kat Eschner February 10, 2017 ...