Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess—a weird and unexpectedly profound new comedy opening this weekend at the Music Box—is deceptively basic filmmaking, hiding an ingenious narrative structure behind ...

It was a war of titans you likely never heard about. One year ago, two of the world’s strongest and most radically different chess engines fought a pitched, 100-game battle to decide the future of ...

Discover how computers play chess, from the Mechanical Turk to advanced chess engines and their strategies against human ...

When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is “The Turk.” In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and diplomat ...