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Chess has featured computerized elements for decades, but contemporary tech lets you play anyone from anywhere. The thinker's game has evolved a lot over the years, morphing from traditional analog ...

Thanks to over 3,000 backers a new electronic, connected chess computer and board have taken Kickstarter by storm raising over $900,000 with still 24 days remaining. ChessUp is a new chess computer ...

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. [Greg06] ...

SUMMIT — Joseph Henry Condon, an experimental physicist and engineer, died on January 2 at the age of 76. He, in partnership with Ken Thompson, created Belle, a pioneering combination of computer and ...

If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play. That ...

It took Michael Casner only five minutes to handily beat me in a game of chess. Even more embarrassing, he did it without first capturing a single piece. “Checkmate,” the eighth-grader told me while ...

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died at the age of 29. He leaves behind a legacy as a standard-bearer in the world of ...