When programming for modern platforms, the restraints are different to those of 30 years ago. Back in the dawn of the microcomputer age, storage and RAM were measured in kilobytes. It simply wasn’t ...

Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov has defeated the first ever computer chess program written more than 60 years ago by the father of computing, Alan Turing. The Russian chess champion played a short ...

It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess. A standard smartphone can now play the kind of moves that make a grandmaster’s head spin. But one artificial ...

On a long bus ride with some friends recently, I found one was playing chess on his iPad. That is, he was playing against the little machine—or if you like, against the chess app on the little machine ...

In Paul Bryant’s after-school chess program at Housman Elementary, it’s not just about kings, queens and rooks — though those game pieces are popular ones. For Jesus Chavez and other Housman students, ...

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Mizzou Chess Program coach and manager Cristian Chirilia practices with team captain Grigory Oparin on Tuesday, Jan. 30. After winning the 2024 Pan-American Intercollegiate Championship, the team is ...

The International Chess Federation's "ChessMom" initiative introduces family-friendly policies to support mothers competing ...

CHICAGO - Call it the Sheriff's Gambit. A sheriff in Illinois is turning to kings, queens and rooks to help teach inmates at his jail not to behave like pawns. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart launched a ...