Now that everyone of means walks around with a pocket computer that can access most human knowledge in a matter of seconds, it might be tough for some to recall a time in which computing was the ...

Andrew Bujalski is neither a computer whiz nor a chess genius. “I was never any good at chess, never had the discipline to get better, and don’t have any openings memorized or anything like that. Any ...

A long standing record for the smallest amount of code required to implement a fully-playable game of computer chess has been broken this week. Demo scene group Red Sector released BootChess, which is ...

Dec. 1—A talk with Mark Galassi, even if it spans a few minutes, is likely to be a sweeping conversation, one that soars way out into the galaxy and plunges deep down into the human psyche. It's a ...

If you are interested in chess or perhaps coding and programming your very own chess engine. You are sure to enjoy this quick guide and overview provided by Bartek Spitza. Programming a chess engine ...

Maybe it has to do with having programmed a computer in high school in the first half of the seventies—a computer the size of a double-wide fridge and covered with blinking lights. Our after-school ...

When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is “The Turk.” In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and diplomat ...