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 ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15 years. It’s ...

It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have ...