For a few days, chess fans could be forgiven for wondering if the end of the game was in sight. At the World Chess Championships in Dubai last week, reigning champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway and ...

Nowadays, chess engines like Houdini and HIARCS can beat the top chess players in the world running on a laptop. Before the computer era, understanding the games of the world championships was ...

“Computer Chess” may be the strangest — and most wondrous — film of the year so far, and its director, Andrew Bujalski, doesn’t think it has much to do with chess. The film takes place at an ...

In late November, the latest official world chess championship match was staged in a large hall in the Olympic city of Sochi, Russia. The games were broadcast on the Internet with live commentary and ...

Chess enthusiasts watch World Chess champion Garry Kasparov on a television monitor as he holds his head in his hands at the start of the sixth and final match 11 May against IBM\'s Deep Blue computer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There was a time, not long ago, when computers—mere assemblages of silicon and wire and plastic that can fly planes, drive cars, ...

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 ...

A recent study suggests that there are more great chess players now than there ever have been - and that players continue to improve. The authors of the study noted and confirmed that the ELO rankings ...

Garry Kasparov, the world's leading chess player, is tied with a powerful computer program in a six-game match at the New York Athletic Club that will conclude tomorrow. But whoever wins this latest ...

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