Of all the things to make a movie out of, why a bunch of computer science geeks trying to make a program that can beat a human at chess? Writer, director and editor Andrew Bujalski’s one-of-a ...

How one computer taught itself to be a chess ‘international master’ in 72 hours A new computer program called Giraffe plays chess with help from artificial intelligence.

Andrew Bujalski’s new film Computer Chess, which debuted Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, is perhaps one of the oddest sports movies ever made. A black-and-white period piece shot on 16mm ...

Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess is a little movie, but it's packed with a lot of nerdy and a lot of weird.

A computer programmer creates a computer chess program that takes up only 487 bytes of data, breaking a 33-year-old record.

Twenty-four years ago on Monday, a world chess champion came up against a force too great to overcome: a computer. Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a six-game match on February 10, 1996 ...

This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and shogi -- in just a few hours, a new study reports.

Chess is an old game, going back more than 1,500 years. Traditionally a two-player game, the modern chess tournament began in the second half of the 19th century. In the last 100 years, there have ...

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 ...

Kenneth Regan, who is ranked as an International Master in chess, has used the Rybek program to detect when cheating occurs in the game. Photo: Douglas Levere ...