On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...

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And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not ...

In 1996 and 1997, the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov played a series of games against Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer optimised to compete against humans in tournament conditions.

A vast global game of geopolitical chess seemed to be hanging in the balance the morning I met with Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess genius whom many regard as the greatest player of all time. What’s ...

When most people think of early video games, they likely picture the 1980s, when plenty of popular games were released. Still, games got their start in 1958, and between then and 1979, plenty of ...

Remember the date. Because February 16, 2011, may likely go down in history as the day that human intelligence was surpassed -- or at least matched -- by the intelligence of computers and software ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his last Twitch stream, three days before his death at age 29 on Oct. 19, chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky was typically ...

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, a child prodigy and professional player who grew up in the Bay Area, died Monday. He was 29. Naroditsky rose quickly through the ranks to the highest title in the ...