How one computer taught itself to be a chess ‘international master’ in 72 hours A new computer program called Giraffe plays chess with help from artificial intelligence.

This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and shogi -- in just a few hours, a new study reports.

Of all the things to make a movie out of, why a bunch of computer science geeks trying to make a program that can beat a human at chess? Writer, director and editor Andrew Bujalski’s one-of-a ...

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 ...

Andrew Bujalski’s new film Computer Chess, which debuted Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, is perhaps one of the oddest sports movies ever made. A black-and-white period piece shot on 16mm ...

An Israeli computer program that plays chess has won a worldwide competition. Ittim News Agency reports that the competition, in Maastricht, Holland, pitted 18 computerized chess softwares against ...

A group of 1980-era computer programmers gather in a hotel for a weekend tournament to determine who can write the best chess-playing program. Shot in archaic black-and-white video, Bujalski&#8217 ...