If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play. That ...

Like many, I have been watching the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, and it got me to think about the status of chess today. I remember in 1997 when IBM's chess computer Big Blue beat reigning world ...

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 ...

Computers have been beating humans at chess for decades, and they’re now so predictably good at it that chess grandmasters won’t even bother to compete against them. But in what feels like a gesture ...

Chess computer manufacturer Novag introduced one of the industry's most novel variations in the Robotic Adversary, an electronic chess board with a robotic arm that could move the computer player's ...