To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a challenge. Although playing chess on a computer against an AI has been a ...

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 ...

The company’s first human patient said the technology has changed his life but that ‘there’s still a lot of work to be done.’ The company’s first human patient said the technology has changed his life ...

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 ...

Here’s what happens inside a computer when it plays chess. Spoiler: It’s a lot of “hmmm, let’s do this! No, this! Oh, this! Wait, this! Hmmaybe this! That’s wrong! Let’s do this!” [Turbulence via DRB] ...