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.

A game from the Komodo-Stockfish match in the recent Thoresen Chess Engines Competition shows that computers can play interesting games.

Computer Chess: Sundance Review Andrew Bujalski’s latest, about a weekend chess tournament between man and machine, was shot with clunky video equipment from the same bygone era it portrays.

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 ...

Computers may have reached a milestone where they can beat humans in advanced chess, where they can use and compare programs.

Computer chess programs can handily beat the best human players in the world—and their games are no less fascinating.

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 ...

In an echo of the chess automaton hoaxes of the 18th and 19th centuries, Kasparov argued that the computer must actually have been controlled by a real grand master.