Of course, the tricky part is explaining the whole corporeal thing to a piece of software on your computer. Enter the “Chess Challenger” by [slash/byte]. Modeled after a commercial gadget of ...

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 computers playing chess.

World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game to IBM-developed supercomputer Deep Blue. This defining moment in ...