Austin American-Statesman

‘Computer Chess:’ Programming the future, one move at a time

Now that everyone of means walks around with a pocket computer that can access most human knowledge in a matter of seconds, it might be tough for some to recall a time in which computing was the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Computers Are Great at Chess, But That Doesn’t Mean the Game Is ‘Solved’

It was a pivotal moment in computing history when a computer beat a human at chess for the first time, but that doesn't mean chess is "solved." Pixabay On this day 21 years ago, the world changed ...
Hexus

Computer chess program written in just 487 bytes of code

A long standing record for the smallest amount of code required to implement a fully-playable game of computer chess has been broken this week. Demo scene group Red Sector released BootChess, which is ...
The New Yorker

Andrew Bujalski’s “Computer Chess”

Maybe it has to do with having programmed a computer in high school in the first half of the seventies—a computer the size of a double-wide fridge and covered with blinking lights. Our after-school ...