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 ...

At the age of 12, Dr. Bei Zeng was already the top chess player in her province in China and a prodigy in a family deeply ...

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.

So how are we going to get regular expressions to play chess? Well, by making a regular expression computer, of course! More specifically, we're going to design a Branch-Free, Conditional ...

One reply is: First, can a machine be made to play a good game of chess? How a computer was programmed so that it could defeat an inexperienced human opponent ...

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis's AI journey had an unexpected start: his early mastery of chess. Years before Hassabis would receive the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating an AI program ...

Demis Hassabis, a childhood chess prodigy, said his experience with the game afforded him his first brush with AI. He was "hooked" from then on.

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

Using a database of tens of thousands of top-level games, Kenneth Regan, himself an international chess master, has devised a program that can help determine whether a player is playing like a human ...

Because the game is endless. It’s the human race ... He was, after all, the man who beat the first sophisticated chess computer, IBM’s Deep Blue, and then, in what many regard as a landmark ...

It was in May of that year, in New York, that he lost a six-game chess match to IBM's Deep Blue, the most powerful chess computer of its day. Today, it seems obvious Kasparov should have lost.