With help from computer chess software engineer Gary Linscott, these chess pros identify why Stockfish is virtually unbeatable by a human, from opening move to endgame.The charts depicting minimax ...

The great contest of man-versus-computer chess is over. “Today, for $50, you can buy a home PC program that will crush most grandmasters,” Kasparov wrote.

Computer Chess An endearingly nutty, proudly analog tribute to the ultra-nerdy innovators of yesteryear, this quasi-mockumentary is easy to admire in spirit even when its haphazard construction ...

I'll leave you with a fun, human-computer chess-related anecdote. In the first game of the 1997 rematch between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue, the computer (reportedly) encountered a bug.

Up until the late 1960s, computer chess programs displayed their moves in either written chess notation (i.e. “e4 e5”) or through a visual diagram of a chess board printed on paper.

“Computer Chess” excels at conveying the frustrations of feeling trapped by forces beyond one’s control, the complexities of humanity irresolvable by any neat code.

Andrew Bujalski’s latest, about a weekend chess tournament between man and machine, was shot with clunky video equipment from the same bygone era it portrays. Computer Chess: Sundance Review ...

Computer History Museum in Mountain View will feature an exhibit on the history of computer technology in chess. Photographed by Liz Hafalia on 8/31/05 in Mountain View, CA Creditted to the San ...

Like the body of this filmmaker’s work, “Computer Chess” and its praise prove to be much ado about nothing. Watch Matt on “You & Me This Morning,” Friday at 6:55 a.m. on WCIU, the U.

Even for a mumblecore film, “Computer Chess” is weak stuff, a punitively dull chunk of quirk that is about, and feels like, being stuck in a motel with a gaggle of programming nerds for a weekend.