In chess circles, that name has long carried significant weight. Gary Kasparov became a world chess champion in 1985 and memorably lost to IBM's Deep Blue more than a decade later. It was, at the time ...

A co-lead at Google's Big Picture data visualization group has created an online version of chess called the Thinking Machine 6, which lets you play against a computer and visualize all of its ...

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 ...

Chess Grand Master Garry Kasparov, left, comtemplates his next move against IBM's Deep Blue chess computer while Chung-Jen Tan, manager of the Deep Blue project looks on during the first game of a ...

A chess-playing robot grabbed its 7-year-old opponent and wouldn’t let go during a match in Russia. The child was quickly freed by nearby adults but ended up with a broken finger.

MANILA, Philippines – What will happen if Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao faces off in a chess match against the 10-year-old computer version of reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen ...

Norway's Magnus Carlsen, the 23-year-old reigning world chess champion, has launched an app based on his own past games to make chess more popular, but he'd prefer its players not get good enough ...

Google says its AlphaGo Zero artificial intelligence program has triumphed at chess against world-leading specialist software within hours of teaching itself the game from scratch. The firm's ...