Any Harry Potter fan has surely spent at least a few moments of their life wishing that Wizard’s Chess — the enchanted version of the classic game in which pieces move without being touched — was a ...

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 ...

Thanks to over 3,000 backers a new electronic, connected chess computer and board have taken Kickstarter by storm raising over $900,000 with still 24 days remaining. ChessUp is a new chess computer ...

Chess computer manufacturer Novag introduced one of the industry's most novel variations in the Robotic Adversary, an electronic chess board with a robotic arm that could move the computer player's ...

Twenty years ago IBM’s Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match. The supercomputer’s success against an ...

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a challenge. Although playing chess on a computer against an AI has been a thing ...