It’s no secret that computers can smoke humans at chess. And now, as if to further mock our mere organic forms, scientists say they’ve created a computer made out of DNA that can play the board game — ...

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, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Like many, I have been watching the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, and it got me to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The company’s first human patient said the technology has changed his life but that ‘there’s still a lot of work to be done.’ The company’s first human patient said the technology has changed his life ...

Years ago, [Leo Neumann]’s girlfriend gave him a 1970s chess computer game that was missing almost everything but the super cool clicky keyboard. Noting the similarity of chess move labeling to chord ...

World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik has taken the third game of man vs. machine chess against the highly touted Deep Fritz 7 computer to lead 2.5 to 0.5 in an eight-game competition being held in ...