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.

Machines alone can beat the world's best chess master easily, but human-machine teams can beat that machine. That was a very counter-intuitive result.

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

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 ...

While world no 2 chess player Hikaru Nakamura will stream the action on his Twitch stream with his insights, Magnus Carlsen ...

The illusion of autonomous AI has historical roots. In the late 18th century, a supposedly automated chess-playing machine, the “Mechanical Turk,” was developed to impress the empress of Austria.

Humans have competed against machine intelligences since before AI was a highly-touted buzzword. Human chess players have competed against software for decades now — with computerized opponents ...

This machine, mathematically inspired, was able to beat the shrewdesthuman players. In fact, it was once said that, if an inventor could make a machine to play chess, he would have little trouble ...

Aditya Gupta, a senior at Fremd High School in Palatine, recently received the Chessable Research Award for applying machine learning techniques to chess. Earlier this year, he was among five high ...