Only a few months ago, IBM’s Deep Blue excited and intrigued us as it challenged the chess wizardry of Garry Kasparov. In the late 18th and first half of the 19th Century, humans were similarly ...

Marked by his yellow baseball cap and “Kasparov vs. Karpov” T-shirt, chess master Edward McHugh stood in the middle of the dim Quartette Club, surrounded by 21 neatly arranged chess boards. As ...

Marked by his yellow baseball cap and “Kasparov vs. Karpov” T-shirt, chess master Edward McHugh stood in the middle of the dim Quartette Club, surrounded by 21 neatly arranged chess boards. As ...

Humanity won a battle against artificial intelligence when world chess champion Garry Kasparov recently defeated IBM’s supercomputer, Deep Blue, in Philadelphia. But it didn’t impress the kids playing ...

Many chess players have overcome visual impairment. Some blind players have become well-known experts and even masters. It is not unusual to see blind players participating in some of the strongest ...

The Deep Blue supercomputer was a chess computer developed by IBM. The project began at Carnegie Mellon University with chess computers Hitech, Chiptest, and Deep Thought that used advances in custom ...

Why did the International Chess Federation, the governing body of world chess, choose Baghdad as the site for its next championship match between the Russian Anatoly Karpov and the Russian-born ...

Anatoly Karpov earned a draw with Gata Kamsky on Thursday in the 15th game of their World Chess Federation championship, leaving him just a point away from successfully defending his title. Russia's ...

Following chess players and chess events these days is often like opening a geography book. The recent Women’s World Championship, in which East met West, is an example. The defending champion was Xie ...

It was an unforgettable night for a number of junior chess players and club members when one of the World's most famous chess players, Susan Polgar paid a visit and gave a talk at the Swieqi Chess ...