The chess lessons are a departure, though, by teaching you to play a game instead of a language or academic subject. “Chess is an ideal fit for Duolingo,” Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of ...

He’d previously scoffed at the suggestion that a chess-playing computer might defeat a grandmaster before the year 2000, which, back then, probably seemed pretty ridiculous to most people.

CHESS05_042_LH.JPG Computer History Museum in Mountain View will feature an exhibit on the history of computer technology in chess. Photographed by Liz Hafalia on 8/31/05 in Mountain View, CA ...

Anatomy of a Computer Chess Game A game from the recent Thoresen Chess Engines Competition shows that computers can play interesting games too By Christopher Chabris Jan. 9, 2015 1:08 pm ET ...