It is this Kasparov vs Deep Blue battle — famously called ‘The Brain’s Last Stand’ by a magazine on its cover back in 1997 — ...

So, in 1770, when one Wolfgang von Kempelen presented a human-defeating chess automaton to the world, perhaps people should have been a little more skeptical than they were.

For more than a decade, advances in artificial intelligence have made computers capable of consistently defeating humans in chess. But despite their clever moves, they've made relatively lousy ...

The story of the confrontation between man and machine in chess is not just a plot for science fiction. It is a real, dramatic saga, where human intuition, emotions and experience competed with ...

They're simply too powerful. In fact, according to the authors of an exciting new paper on the subject, no human has been able to beat a computer in a chess tournament for more than 15 years.

A series dramatizes the 1997 chess match between a world champion and an IBM computer, a precursor of modern anxieties about ...

The automaton appeared to be capable of beating skilled opponents, most famously including Napoleon. But the machine was, in fact, a fake: A human chess player hid inside and manipulated the ...

It is easy to be astonished and misled by what we hope is true. Whether that is a 18th-century clockwork machine pretending to play chess, or a 21st-century chatbot pretending there’s a human ...

‘The province of intellect alone’ And we are introduced to the Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing automaton constructed in 1770 that could challenge and often win against a human opponent.

At this year’s London Chess Classic, the “classical” portion of the championship match ended with 12 draws. That might seem boring, but many of the games were fantastic.