Despite some dire predictions, the computer chess apocalypse has yet to come. It was postponed when six elite American grandmasters prevailed recently over an equal number of top computer-chess pro… ...

Computers Still Dominate Human Opponents In Chess : All Tech Considered IBM's Deep Blue beat chess great Garry Kasparov in 1997. ... To a computer, all opponents look the same.

In 1978, Levy found himself in Toronto, playing a computer opponent in a match which stands out as a significant milestone in the history of chess programming. He played five games against his foe.

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen will be defending his title this fall against his Russian challenger, Sergey Karjakin. The 25-year-old Norwegian tells DW how he wants to make chess more ...

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 ...

That holdout is Martin—the worst computer opponent on Chess.com, by far the most popular chess website in the world. Whereas programs such as ChatGPT dazzle, perplex, ...

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 ...

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.

The computer takeover of chess occurred, at least in the popular imagination, 25 years ago, when the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated world champion Garry Kasparov.

It was a war of titans you likely never heard about. One year ago, two of the world’s strongest and most radically different chess engines fought a pitched, 100-game battle to decide the future ...