Chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by actress Anya Taylor-Joy, reads a chess pamphlet in Netflix's miniseries "The Queen Gambit." Netflix Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" has inspired a surge of interest ...

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 ...

Explore how humans and computers think differently in chess — from intuition and creativity to precision and calculation. A ...

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

A recent study suggests that there are more great chess players now than there ever have been - and that players continue to improve. The authors of the study noted and confirmed that the ELO rankings ...

Computing, as a science and an industry, has always been intimately connected with games, and with none more so than chess. The quest to build a computer grandmaster has helped bring focus to ...

It was a pivotal moment in computing history when a computer beat a human at chess for the first time, but that doesn't mean chess is "solved." Pixabay On this day 21 years ago, the world changed ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Like many, I have been watching the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, and it got me to ...

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

It was as if a bottom seed had knocked out the top team in March Madness: At the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament in St. Louis earlier this month, an upstart American teenager named Hans Niemann ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, July 25, 2008) - CHESS, the Army's "Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions" consolidated buy period opens July 28 and will run through Sept. 30, giving ...

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