The Deep Blue supercomputer was a chess computer developed by IBM. The project began at Carnegie Mellon University with chess computers Hitech, Chiptest, and Deep Thought that used advances in custom ...
It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have ...
As computers get better at chess, their games look more human. Their moves seem more connected to known strategic plans, and when they aren’t, the logic can still often be discerned by experts. But ...
It was a pivotal moment in computing history when a computer beat a human at chess for the first time, but that doesn't mean chess is "solved." Pixabay On this day 21 years ago, the world changed ...
Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...
With Computer Chess, Andrew Bujalski, the American indie auteur known for no-budget gems Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation, has made a profoundly idiosyncratic and strangely offbeat movie about a ...