Computers Are Great at Chess, But That Doesn’t Mean the Game Is ‘Solved’ On this day in 1996, the computer Deep Blue made history when it beat Garry Kasparov ...

The best chess game was played between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky in 1851, ... customizable computer opponent for the purpose of studying chess, you'll want a chess engine.

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 ...

Saturday’s 11th game of the best-of-12 World Chess Championship in New York City was a quick, 34-move draw — the ninth draw of the match — and took just more than three hours.

Mastering the Game: A History of Computer Chess will open Saturday, Sept. 10 at 1 p.m. at the Computer History Museum, 1401 North Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View. Advertisement.

Campbell was a member of the IBM team that developed Deep Blue, the computer that challenged arguably the greatest chess player of all time, Garry Kasparov, in a much-hyped man-vs.-machine match ...

The chess board’s intelligent guts come courtesy of an old Fidelity Chessmaster 8 game, with additional LEDs and components added to detect where the human player has moved, and then indicate ...