One chess commentator joked that Russian president Vladimir Putin might help Karjakin access the program to prepare ... as if a superfast algorithm had taught itself English in an afternoon ...

Bell Labs researcher Claude Shannon published a seminal paper describing a potential program to do exactly that. The following year, Turing created the first computer chess playing algorithm, and ...

The first program-assisted chess algorithm was created by Alan Turing. Fifty years later, IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Blue, emerged. Russian chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov played ...

Programming a chess engine or chess computer is ... might be assigned a higher value than a pawn. The program uses the minimax algorithm to identify the best possible move. This algorithm works ...

People have been interested in chess-playing computers ... and find out when the program gets smart enough to beat you. The final version is even on GitHub. The algorithm is a classic one.

By the mid-2000s, though, upgrades in chess-engine software and commercial hardware made overpowering algorithms more accessible; in 2006, an engine running on a standard desktop computer defeated ...

[Matthew] did the work as part of his Master’s degree program. His paper covers how Giraffe’s algorithm is different from conventional chess playing programs (see the video below for some of ...

Released in 2020, the AI program from Chess.com is a remarkably effective ... which runs its ever-growing algorithms off powerful computers, feeding them massive historical match archives.

We know that computer chess was already on the famous ... so Turing went through the program's algorithms with his friend Alick Glennie. Turing played the computer's role, moving in accordance ...