Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

One reply is: First, can a machine be made to play a good game of chess? How a computer was programmed so that it could defeat an inexperienced human opponent ...

A lot of computers can play ... While chess games might be a niche item, neural networks that can deduce complex evaluation functions have wide applicability in fields ranging from computer ...

More specifically, we're going to design a Branch-Free ... computer to play chess. So let's get started. (Some people may say I have an unhealthy obsession with building weird computers, c.f. my ...

and the next thing you instinctively do is play PC games, specifically the free built-in ones, on your trusty Windows 7 ...