The growth of computer chess technology also highlighted the advances in the field of artificial intelligence, the branch of science focused on building machines that can mimic human thinking.

Twenty-four years ago on Monday, a world chess champion came up against a force too great to overcome: a computer. Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a six-game match on February 10, 1996 ...

On this day in tech history, the Deep Blue chess computer became the first machine to win a game against a reigning world champion under regular tournament time controls.

Offbeat mock-doc in which chess fanatics descend on a hotel for a weekend to pit their rival computer programs against each other.

The drawback of this approach went on spectacular display last year in a computer-versus-computer match in the Netherlands pitting a strong PC-based commercial chess program called Shredder ...