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 against IBM's Deep Blue computer in ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The random setup of pieces in Chess960 makes the game in many ways a better match for computerized play than conventional chess, where opening moves are usually stored in a database. By Kevin Poulsen.