It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have ...

If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play. That ...

A long standing record for the smallest amount of code required to implement a fully-playable game of computer chess has been broken this week. Demo scene group Red Sector released BootChess, which is ...

X3D Technologies today announced the ultimate "X3D Man vs. Machine" contest, as Garry Kasparov takes on X3D Fritz in virtual reality, with the chessboard floating in the air between man and computer.

If you’re bad at chess, you might be great at Really Bad Chess. The World Chess Championship — happening this month in the Fulton Market building near the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan is seeing Magnus ...

"I don't mind putting something pleasant out into the world," said filmmaker Andrew Bujalski in a recent New York Magazine interview. You don't hear that too often outside the sphere of ...