It’s no secret that computers can smoke humans at chess. And now, as if to further mock our mere organic forms, scientists say they’ve created a computer made out of DNA that can play the board game — ...

Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, ...

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Like many, I have been watching the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, and it got me to ...

It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have ...

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The company’s first human patient said the technology has changed his life but that ‘there’s still a lot of work to be done.’ The company’s first human patient said the technology has changed his life ...

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In Washington Square Park, they don’t agree to draws. The first time I sat down at a black marble table to play one of Manhattan’s celebrated chess hustlers, I weathered the attack and simplified into ...