You can play against a human opponent, or take on the computer's artificial intelligence (AI) program. The AI has 100 customizable playing levels - 60 listed as "fun" and 40 rated as "Competition." ...

Iterative versions of computer chess software can also boost the Elo rating somewhat: The new world champion, Komodo 8, has an Elo rating that's around 60 points higher than Komodo 7a using the ...

Chess champion Garry Kasparov was first beaten by a computer, Deep Blue, in 1997 (Credit: Getty Images) “I called it ‘do nothing but do it well’,” he recalls.

The story of the confrontation between man and machine in chess is not just a plot for science fiction. It is a real, ...

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

This allows the program to predict the opponent’s strategy and make the best possible move in response, providing a strategic advantage. Optimizing and Refining the Chess Engine ...

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

Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov has defeated the first ever computer chess program written more than 60 years ago by the father of computing, Alan Turing.

By the mid-2000s, though, upgrades in chess-engine software and commercial hardware made overpowering algorithms more accessible; in 2006, an engine running on a standard desktop computer defeated ...