While chess games might be a niche item, neural networks that can deduce complex evaluation functions have wide applicability in fields ranging from computer vision, stock market prediction ...

The pocket sized chess computer uses a “sandwich” style construction ... Another example of the lengths the chess community will go to perfect the Game of Kings.

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 ...

And then from there we can program our new computer to play chess. So let's get started. (Some people may say I have an unhealthy obsession with building weird computers, c.f. my game of life ...

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

It was in May of that year, in New York, that he lost a six-game chess match to IBM's Deep Blue, the most powerful chess computer of its day. Today, it seems obvious Kasparov should have lost.

Because the game is endless. It’s the human race ... He was, after all, the man who beat the first sophisticated chess computer, IBM’s Deep Blue, and then, in what many regard as a landmark ...

"My journey on AI started with games and specifically chess," Hassabis said ... "experimenting" with the Amiga 500 — an early home computer. Hassabis said his first venture into AI was building ...