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 ...

So how are we going to get regular expressions to play chess? Well, by making a regular expression computer, of course! More specifically, we're going to design a Branch-Free, Conditional ...

If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play.

the most powerful chess computer of its day. Today, it seems obvious Kasparov should have lost. A computer's ability to calculate moves in a game by "brute force" is infinitely greater than a human's.

One reply is: First, can a machine be made to play a good game of chess? How a computer was programmed so that it could defeat an inexperienced human opponent ...