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 ...

Carlsen had no proof, just a feeling. His theory was that somehow Niemann was getting help from a computer. This was before ChatGPT, but even then, computers could easily beat even the best humans by ...

But last weekend, it lost a game of chess. Not to a human grandmaster or even to some other fancy AI. It lost to an Atari 2600 that first appeared in the 1970s and can only calculate one or two chess ...

“If you want to know what the future of AI looks like, look at chess. It happened to us first, and it’s going to happen to all of you.” Reading time 13 minutes In May of 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down ...

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