A game from the Komodo-Stockfish match in the recent Thoresen Chess Engines Competition shows that computers can play interesting games.

On this day in tech history, the Deep Blue chess computer became the first machine to win a game against a reigning world champion under regular tournament time controls.

Computer chess isn't just about playing games.But what's most fascinating about "Mastering the Game," the Computer History Museum's computer chess exhibit, is that it frames the rise of the ...

Twenty-four years ago on Monday, a world chess champion came up against a force too great to overcome: a computer. Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a six-game match on February 10, 1996 ...

The sixth game of the World Chess Championship was over before the sun set. This was new. The intricately fought contests had thus far lasted until night fell, and sometimes well beyond. The ...

This week, a section of the historic machine will be on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View as part of its new exhibit called Mastering the Game: A History of Computer Chess.

AI Computer Defeated: In a highly publicized event demonstrating the cutting-edge in artificial intelligence at the time, Deep Blue won just two out of a series of six chess games against Kasparov.

The grandmasters who led the U.S. chess team to fifth place in the World Chess Olympiad drew on years of experience, hours of preparation and a super computer half a world away from Istanbul.

While chess games might be a niche item, neural networks that can deduce complex evaluation functions have wide applicability in fields ranging from computer vision, stock market prediction, and ...

Once computers were reliably beating grandmasters, cheating-by-computer became a serious threat, Emil Sutovsky, the director general of the International Chess Federation, told me.