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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.

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.

If you’ve ever played chess or even checkers, you’ve probably thought about making a board that lets a computer play you without having to enter your moves and look at the board on a screen.

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 ...

A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still ...

It’s the story that has rocked chess and shown no sign of abating. The cheating scandal which has engulfed the sport, involving five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, is all anyone is talking ...

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 ...

Special Edition” There was nothing special about the game itself, “Atari Chess,” which was released in 1979 for the Atari ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess.He had played as a kid and had ...