As you were growing up in the 1980s, you watched him play game after game in the back seat of a Dodge minivan against tiny electronic chess computer boards ... and weird vintage chess computer ...

If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer ... software to bring the vintage concept into the 21st century. With the Chess Challenger and a standard board, the player can face ...

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 computers playing chess.

Players used their own chess board and input/read out moves from the computer. Boris the Talking Chess Computer (1977) As one of the world's first chess computers, Boris feels primitive today.

As you were growing up in the 1980s, you watched him play game after game in the back seat of a Dodge minivan against tiny electronic chess computer boards ... and weird vintage chess computer ...