There are more possible moves in a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe. So how do computers, which are officially better chess players than humans now, know which moves to make ...

“Computer Chess” may be the strangest — and most wondrous — film of the year so far, and its director, Andrew Bujalski, doesn’t think it has much to do with chess. The film takes place at an ...

It’s more been than three months since Roger Ebert passed away, but he’s still filing copy from the great beyond. Ebert’s site leads this morning with a previously unpublished review of Andrew ...

A popular chess problem known as the Queen’s Puzzle has captivated mathematicians and computer scientists for years, yet no one has been able to write a computer program that can solve the conundrum ...

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training ...

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 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Simple Chess Simple Chess is a game perfectly described by its name. It is the simplest way to play chess on Steam against an advanced AI. From Zelda to ...