In chess circles, that name has long carried significant weight. Gary Kasparov became a world chess champion in 1985 and ...

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.

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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 ...

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

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 2600 game console. A 4k game at a t ...

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 ...

Whether you've just started playing chess or are a seasoned pro, it can be difficult finding people of your skill level to play against. GoChess allows you to do so online, via an actual physical ...

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 ...

Checkmate: How to Play Chess Online With Friends Chess has featured computerized elements for decades, but contemporary tech lets you play anyone from anywhere. By Jeffrey L. Wilson ...