While chess games might be a niche item, neural networks that can deduce complex evaluation functions have wide applicability in fields ranging from computer vision, stock market prediction ...

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

Kirill Shevchenko, a grandmaster who represents Romania, has been accused of getting assistance from a computer in the middle ...

A Romanian chess grandmaster has been expelled from the 2024 Spanish Team Championship after a locked phone found in a ...

So what next for game-playing computer scientists? Takizawa speculates that chess could be the next game to be solved as a ...

The 1980s are remembered for its outlandish fashions, incredible music, and, of course, awesome gadgets. Here are a few of ...

The second Saturday in October recognizes National Chess Day. The game challenges players mentally while also breaking down ...

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

Traditional games copy a popular game in real-life like chess or snakes and ladders ... One of the earliest computer games was called Pong. It simulated table tennis with two players trying ...

Demis Hassabis cofounded DeepMind, the renowned AI lab acquired by Google in 2014. He is also a former chess prodigy and won ...

Season one champions, Triveni Continental Kings, triumphed over the PBG Alaskan Knights in both final matches to secure their ...