A 2020 CES Top Tech and Innovation Awardee, this electronic chess board is designed to have a mind of its own. ... Think of it as a non-magical wizard's chess board from Harry Potter.

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It’s Wizard’s Chess! We first saw Square Off at CES 2017, where we gave it our Best Cool Tech award.The chess pieces on the board can move without any help. Think Wizard’s Chess from J.K ...

Automatic chess boards are fairly common now, but amazing for the early 1900s. Or, you can skip the board and go 100% computerized without as much memory as you might think.

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.

Computer chess engines surpassed the world’s best human players in the 1990s. They can calculate millions of moves per second, allowing them to quickly make the best decision on the board. So why ...

Cheating in online chess is relatively straightforward: players rely on the help of chess engines, which are freely accessible computer programs that can look at millions of possible moves and ...