Campbell was a member of the IBM team that developed Deep Blue, the computer that challenged arguably the greatest chess player of all time, Garry Kasparov, in a much-hyped man-vs.-machine match ...

Since 1996, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's Shredder program has won nine titles as World Computer Chess Champion. Shredder Classic combines extremely powerful chess play with an easy-to-use mouse or ...

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, elite computer chess programs — with names such as Ethereal, Fire, Fizbo, Komodo, Laser, Winter, and Xiphos — play against each other there, and you ...

If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play.

That was the beginning of the chess computer club in Moscow. I brought 53 Ataris [home] as payment for my contract [laughs] And that's how we started first computer club in the Soviet Union.

Engineers and chess enthusiasts eventually turned to computers. In 1958, an IBM programmer named Alex Bernstein came up with a program that could play a complete game.

The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess player.