1997: Deep Blue becomes the first computer to defeat a chess champion in match play. A year earlier, Garry Kasparov rallied from a first-game loss to beat Deep Blue in the first high-level chess ...

When Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess premiered at the Oak Cliff Film Festival, Texas Theatre paired it with a lobby chess battle: a tiny war waged and fought by humans. For its theatrical release ...

Andrew Bujalski is neither a computer whiz nor a chess genius. “I was never any good at chess, never had the discipline to get better, and don’t have any openings memorized or anything like that. Any ...

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 ...