Chess960 seems to hold special appeal for chess programmers. Because the placement of pieces is random, computers rely on lightning-fast processing, without retrieving archives of past moves from a ...

Q:Could you update us about chess programs for the computer? I'd like to find one that offers adjustable skill levels as well as chess problems and analysis tools that can help me improve my game. A: ...

A long standing record for the smallest amount of code required to implement a fully-playable game of computer chess has been broken this week. Demo scene group Red Sector released BootChess, which is ...

If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play. That ...

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Watching Andrew Bujalski’s “Computer Chess” is like wandering back in time, complete with the accompanying disorientation. It’s set during a weekend tournament for chess-software programmers in 1982, ...

Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, Computer Chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the ...