The chess tournament is being filmed for posterity (Gerald Perry plays the stuffy host and moderator), but in the pre-YouTube age, few people were natural on camera.

World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and his super-computer opponent "Deep Fritz" share the points and honors as the "Brains in Bahrain" match ends.

Engineers and chess enthusiasts eventually turned to computers. In 1958, an IBM programmer named Alex Bernstein came up with a program that could play a complete game.

The story of the confrontation between man and machine in chess is not just a plot for science fiction. It is a real, dramatic saga, where human intuition, emotions and experience competed with ...

A black-and-white game gets a black-and-white visual treatment in Computer Chess, the most formally sophisticated movie to date by the New York writer-director Andrew Bujalski. Shot on a vintage ...

By design, advanced chess brings together human and computer skills to increase the level of play and reduce potential mistakes.

Computers and the number-crunching analysis they provide have become a regular feature of the highest levels of chess for more than a decade.