Since the 18th century, people have been fascinated by the idea of machines that could play chess against humans. With the advent of the digital electronic computer in the mid-20th century, that dream ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by actress Anya Taylor-Joy, reads a chess pamphlet in Netflix's miniseries "The Queen ...

Discover how computers play chess, from the Mechanical Turk to advanced chess engines and their strategies against human opponents.

Computing, as a science and an industry, has always been intimately connected with games, and with none more so than chess. The quest to build a computer grandmaster has helped bring focus to ...

Chess "is an entire world of just 64 squares," chess prodigy Beth Harmon says in "The Queen's Gambit." A runaway hit, Netflix's new miniseries follows the fictional life of Kentucky orphan and chess ...