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 ...

Elite chess may carry an air of respectability and intellectual rigour, but that hasn’t stopped players and fans from ...

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

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." ...

Kids in the chess program are then introduced to his free computing classes, such as the 10-hour Serious Computer Programming workshop for those in sixth grade and older. High schoolers with some ...

With help from computer chess software engineer Gary Linscott, these chess pros identify why Stockfish is virtually unbeatable by a human, from opening move to endgame.The charts depicting minimax ...

The Deep Junior computer had been characterized in other reports as a supercomputer. According to Shay Bushinsky, one of the authors’ of the Deep Junior software, though, the so-called ...

Twenty-four years ago on Monday, a world chess champion came up against a force too great to overcome: a computer. Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a six-game match on February 10, 1996 ...

Focused on a group of proto-computer nerds involved in a tournament to devise first-rate chess software for their clunky machines, the movie relishes the awkward expressions of brilliance from its ...