Years ago, [Leo Neumann]’s girlfriend gave him a 1970s chess computer game that was missing almost everything but the super cool clicky keyboard. Noting the similarity of chess move labeling to chord ...

In this corner, Zhu Chen, the women's World chess champion. On the other side of the table: the Unisplendour Star laptop, developed by the Tsinghua Unisplendour Corporation. In head to head ...

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 ...

Oliver Roeder is a journalist, author and games player. He is a former senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, where he covered the World Chess Championship and other gaming pursuits. The following is ...

World chess champion Zhu Chen disclosed Thursday she will play portable computer "Star of Unisplendour" June in Beijing, whose software programmers are from some chess specialists and top players, ...

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 ...