Chess is undoubtedly a game of the mind. Sadly, some of the nuances are lost when you play on a computer screen. When a game is tactile, it carries a different gravity. Look at a poker player ...
If you walk into a screening of Computer Chess without any prior knowledge, you’ll likely think two things. First, this is a real documentary about tech nerds from the 1980s. Second, it looks rough.
As computers get better at chess, their games look more human. Their moves seem more connected to known strategic plans, and when they aren’t, the logic can still often be discerned by experts. But ...
Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...
In 2003, two artists and designers unveiled "Thinking Machine," a chess computer with a twist. It would telegraph its moves in full view of the player and show how it was processing every possibility.
Back before computer nerds (and the artificial intelligence they created) inherited the earth, these pasty-faced programmers seemed like little more than socially awkward A/V geeks who had graduated ...
Free Online Chess ( www.chessmaniac.com) an Online Chess LLC website is now beta testing a new tournament format know as the Swiss System Tournament. A Swiss system tournament is a commonly used type ...
We have covered many chess computers in the past, but we think this might just be the smallest. Enter the PIC Blitz: A tiny low-cost low-power computer that can play lightning chess. It’s based on a ...
There is an immediate sense of change afoot in “Computer Chess,” Andrew Bujalski‘s fourth feature as writer-director, visible to anyone familiar with his previous work. While Bujalski’s influential ...