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.

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

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 ...

How one computer taught itself to be a chess ‘international master’ in 72 hours A new computer program called Giraffe plays chess with help from artificial intelligence.

For years, the game of chess has been seen as a litmus test for how far AI can go against the human intellect. When IBM’s ...

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.