and trackpad is an easy way to turn any computing device into a laptop As spotted by Hackaday, a tinkerer called Folkert van Heusden created a microcontroller that plays chess online. Named after ...

Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...

Bulgarian chess prodigy Ivan Kukushkin made the bold statement after collecting his second win against an International ...

A lot of computers can play chess. [Matthew Lui’s] Giraffe is a chess playing computer, but unlike other common chess programs, Giraffe taught itself to play. It apparently learned pretty well ...

Bulgarian chess prodigy Ivan Kukushkin has made a bold statement after securing his second victory in as many games against ...

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 ...

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 ...

the most powerful chess computer of its day. Today, it seems obvious Kasparov should have lost. A computer's ability to calculate moves in a game by "brute force" is infinitely greater than a human's.