Chess computer manufacturer Novag introduced one of the industry's most novel variations in the Robotic Adversary, an electronic chess board with a robotic arm that could move the computer player ...

Among them were the Fidelity Chessmaster, the Electronic Grandmaster, the Chessmate, and the Boris Electronic Chess Computer. (Boris talked back to the player, in a manner of speaking.

ChessUp is a new chess computer complete with a built-in chess instructor, light indicators, touch sensors, Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity, companion application and Stockfish AI.

The Centaur Smart Chess Set, which is now on sale at the MoMA Design Store, looks just like a regular chess board, but it tracks the moves that you play, and then indicates the computer’s move ...

In other words, Turing's brain had much more processing power than a 1951 computer. Six years later, the IBM 704 became the first computer to play a full chess game, taking eight minutes between move.

In 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue multiprocessor computer defeated the world champion, Garry Kasparov, rapid gains in electronic chess seemed likely to diminish the game’s challenge and glamour.

“Chess computers can beat the world champion, and the internet gives us a library of millions of grandmaster games. Nevertheless, the pieces still move the same, and the board still has 64 ...

Engineers and chess enthusiasts eventually turned to computers. In 1958, an IBM programmer named Alex Bernstein came up with a program that could play a complete game.