If you're like me, you have an older brother who loves chess. As you were growing up in the 1980s, you watched him play game after game in the back seat of a Dodge minivan against tiny electronic ...

If you're like me, you have an older brother who loves chess. As you were growing up in the 1980s, you watched him play game after game in the back seat of a Dodge minivan against tiny electronic ...

Thanks to over 3,000 backers a new electronic, connected chess computer and board have taken Kickstarter by storm raising over $900,000 with still 24 days remaining. ChessUp is a new chess computer ...

The checkmate heard round the world happened twenty years ago last month, when reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost a game of chess to a computer, IBM's Deep Blue. Though Kasparov would ...

Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, ...

Computers have revolutionised the way chess is played – and the best chess programs are impossible to beat. But could a player that’s part human and part computer be even more powerful? It all started ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It sounds like a classic case of the unstoppable force coming up against the immovable object. Two world-beating ...