Few of us are 18-year-old Go world champions, but all of us can play chess against an AI program that visualizes what the computer is thinking.. The viewer makes the first move. When it’s the AI ...

Since 1996, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's Shredder program has won nine titles as World Computer Chess Champion. Shredder Classic combines extremely powerful chess play with an easy-to-use mouse or ...

In the mid-1940s, British mathematician Alan Turing (pictured) began theorizing ways that a computer could play chess against a human. Across the Atlantic, in 1949, Bell Labs researcher Claude ...

I just lost at chess to Bobby Fischer, three times in a row. Then for a change of pace, I lost to Magnus Carlsen, world champion since 2013. Then I lost to the lowest-ranked player I could choose ...

Kasparov faces Deep Blue in their first match in February, 1996. Source: Computer History Museum. A massively parallel, RS/6000 SP Thin P2SC-based system enhanced with special purpose VLSI chess chips ...

This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and shogi -- in just a few hours, a new study reports.

World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik has taken the third game of man vs. machine chess against the highly touted Deep Fritz 7 computer to lead 2.5 to 0.5 in an eight-game competition being held ...