For almost as long as we've had computers, humans have been trying to make ones that play chess. The most famous chess-playing computer of course is IBM's Deep Blue, which in 1997 defeated the then ...

Chess World Champion Vladimir Kramnik laughs it up in this video of his match against a merciless robot arm, but on the inside, like the rest of humanity, you can see the growing sense of dread. We ...

Basically since computers were invented, one of the yardsticks that computer scientists have used to gauge how advanced the system is, was to have it play chess against a human being. Eventually, it ...

14:18, Fri, Dec 7, 2018 Updated: 18:01, Fri, Dec 7, 2018 Concepts such as insight and reflection were thought to be beyond a computer’s capability – but researchers using the world’s most powerful ...