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 ...

And then from there we can program our new computer to play chess. So let's get started. (Some people may say I have an unhealthy obsession with building weird computers, c.f. my game of life ...

One reply is: First, can a machine be made to play a good game of chess? How a computer was programmed so that it could defeat an inexperienced human opponent ...

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 ...

Because the game is endless. It’s the human race ... He was, after all, the man who beat the first sophisticated chess computer, IBM’s Deep Blue, and then, in what many regard as a landmark ...

Using a database of tens of thousands of top-level games, Kenneth Regan, himself an international chess master, has devised a program that can help determine whether a player is playing like a human ...

"My journey on AI started with games and specifically chess," Hassabis said ... "experimenting" with the Amiga 500 — an early home computer. Hassabis said his first venture into AI was building ...