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.

The computer then picks a prompt to design the opponent’s piece that it thinks will go well with what you’ve chosen already, and generates the opposing chess pieces to play against you.

An curved arrow pointing right. A co-lead at Google's Big Picture data visualization group has created an online version of chess called the Thinking Machine 6, which lets you play against a ...

In 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost for the first time in history to a computer, Deep Blue. Twenty-seven years later, what has the human defeat against the machine taught us ...

As a kid, I recall my older brother, an avid player, struggling against a computer chess system built right into a plastic chess board with a simple LED display. In 1997, the Deep Blue system ...

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

One of his investments was ChessPark, a site he cofounded that enabled users to play against a computer, other people, or even celebrities in the chess world. RZA had grown up poor on Staten ...

This smart chess board blends the tactile joy of in-person play with the global reach of online opponents.

The Pi handles chess tasks—checking the validity of moves, acting as a computer opponent, and connecting online for games against other humans if so desired. Everything is wrapped up with 3D ...