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.

In a chess match hyped as man vs. machine yesterday, technology won. But humanity’s supporters cried foul and said the computer’s temper tantrums may have swayed the outcome. Internatio… ...

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 ...

When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk." In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and ...

Having defeated a human shogi (Japanese chess) expert, this computer program's next task is to figure out whether you can make the payments on a new mortgage.

Thanks to over 3,000 backers a new electronic, connected chess computer and board have taken Kickstarter by storm raising over $900,000 with still 24 days remaining. ChessUp is a new chess ...

If you’ve ever played chess or even checkers, you’ve probably thought about making a board that lets a computer play you without having to enter your moves and look at the board on a screen ...

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