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 ...

Saitek's Mephisto Maestro Travel Chess Computer showed me that I'm really, really rusty at chess. The Maestro sells for around $100 (Cdn.) and looks a lot like a Palm computer on steroids. It's got ...

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training ...

Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov announced this week that he will play his first public match against a computer since his stunning loss to IBM's Deep Blue machine five years ago. The match ...