In chess circles, that name has long carried significant weight. Gary Kasparov became a world chess champion in 1985 and ...

The great contest of man-versus-computer chess is over. “Today, for $50, you can buy a home PC program that will crush most grandmasters,” Kasparov wrote.

Up until the late 1960s, computer chess programs displayed their moves in either written chess notation (i.e. “e4 e5”) or through a visual diagram of a chess board printed on paper.

I'll leave you with a fun, human-computer chess-related anecdote. In the first game of the 1997 rematch between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue, the computer (reportedly) encountered a bug.

Computer History Museum in Mountain View will feature an exhibit on the history of computer technology in chess. Photographed by Liz Hafalia on 8/31/05 in Mountain View, CA Creditted to the San ...

Computer Chess An endearingly nutty, proudly analog tribute to the ultra-nerdy innovators of yesteryear, this quasi-mockumentary is easy to admire in spirit even when its haphazard construction ...

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. Computer Chess: Sundance Review ...