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 computer ...

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 diplomat ...

If you're like me, you have an older brother who loves chess. As you were growing up in the 1980s, you watched him play game after game in the back seat of a Dodge minivan against tiny electronic ...

Computers have been beating humans at chess for decades, and they’re now so predictably good at it that chess grandmasters won’t even bother to compete against them. But in what feels like a gesture ...

Click to open image viewer. Gary Kasparov electronic chess game on exhibit at the National Museum of American History, 2002. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This is an electronic ...

Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, ...

This past fall, the world championship match in Bonn, Germany, wasn’t the only thing stirring up chess enthusiasts. ChessBase 10, a beefier new version of the massive database program that is the ...