It’s tough to keep up without a computerSaturday, April 3, 2010 2:49 AM Today’s chess professionals are a far cry from earlier generations of grandmasters who often enjoyed a leisurely lifestyle. Computers have raised the ante. If your opponent...
iPad, hype or the real deal?
What do you think of the new iPad? Just pure hype, a waste of money It’s the real deal, a must have I don’t use Apple products pollcode.com free polls Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
The Deep Blue Turing Test
Special thanks to Jerry for sending this to us. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Computer Chess Event
More info about the history of chess computers here: http://electronicchess.free.fr/heroes.html Computer Chess Eventby Jan Krabbenbos The Dutch Computer Chess Federation (CSVN) is organising its 29th Open Dutch Computer Chess Championship from 16 until 18 October 2009 in Leiden. The...
Thinking Machine
The Basics of Chess Chess is a game of position. The position of your pieces in relation to your opponent’s pieces is crucial. You constantly have to evaluate these positions and set up goals and long term tactics. You...
Macworld Chess
Play chess old school styleby Rob Griffiths, Macworld.comMacworld – San Francisco, CA, USA It’s not hard to count the number of bundled games in OS X (not counting games available via Terminal). The total count is one—Chess, which you’ll...
Can computers think for themselves?
October 5, 2008Computers can finally “think” for themselves, or can they?By Justin Montgomery Not since the IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue” beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, have computers been regarded as being able to “think” at a...
Can computers see like humans?
Visionary Research: Teaching Computers to See Like a HumanM.I.T. researchers are harnessing computer models of human vision to improve image recognition softwareBy Larry Greenemeier For all their sophistication, computers still can’t compete with nature’s gift—a brain that sorts objects...