In 1783, an autonomous machine beat Benjamin Franklin in a game of chess. Well, at least that’s what he was led to believe. Franklin’s opponent was a life-size, humanlike figure seated at a large ...

Computer History Museum in Mountain View will feature an exhibit on the history of computer technology in chess. Photographed by Liz Hafalia on 8/31/05 in Mountain View, CA Creditted to the San ...

“Computer Chess” Not rated. At Kendall Square Cinema. Grade: B- The latest from Boston-born mumblecore auteur Andrew Bujalski (“Funny Ha Ha”), “Computer Chess” is amusing enough at first.

When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk.". In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and ...

Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...

Up until the late 1960s, computer chess programs displayed their moves in either written chess notation (i.e. “e4 e5”) or through a visual diagram of a chess board printed on paper.

Mechanical Turk is a website owned and operated by Amazon since its creation in 2005. The name comes from an 18 th century chess-playing device commissioned by Austrian Empress Maria Theresa.

Kasparov wondered whether a human chess player was somehow feeding the computer moves, much like the infamous Mechanical Turk of yore. Various conspiracy theories flourished, but came to nothing.

Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...