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 ...

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Board games are not just fun ways to pass the time with friends and family. To play a board game, one must flash their competitive spirit and think strategically while maintaining the balance of ...

Levy Rozman returns to answer more of the internet's burning questions about the game of chess. What does he make of the Carlsen vs. Neimann controversy? What's the greatest chess move of all time?

But last weekend, it lost a game of chess. Not to a human grandmaster or even to some other fancy AI. It lost to an Atari 2600 that first appeared in the 1970s and can only calculate one or two chess ...