If you’ve ever played chess or even checkers, you’ve probably thought about making a board that lets a computer play you without having to enter your moves and look at the board on a screen ...

Chess computers fail at Penrose’s chess puzzle because they have a database of end-games to choose from. This board is not, Tagg and Penrose believe, in the computer’s playbook.

Playing against a computer vs. playing online The setup process is straightforward, but the biggest downside of the Square Off board is its size.

Crazy Stone and Nomitan are locked in a game of Go, the Eastern version of chess. On each screen, you can see a Go board -- a grid of 19 lines by 19 lines -- filling up with black and white ...

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.

A lot of computers can play chess. [Matthew Lui’s] Giraffe is a chess playing computer, but unlike other common chess programs, Giraffe taught itself to play. It apparently learned pretty wel… ...

"If computer chess theory holds and we observe the fact that micro-processor speed will double every one and one-half years, then maybe in 3 or 4 years, the PC based programs will come close to ...