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Maybe it has to do with having programmed a computer in high school in the first half of the seventies—a computer the size of a double-wide fridge and covered with blinking lights. Our after-school ...

Within the first few minutes of Computer Chess something seems awry. It looks like a documentary (or maybe a faux-documentary?) But then the audience's view begins to cut to different vantage points ...

Andrew Bujalski is neither a computer whiz nor a chess genius. “I was never any good at chess, never had the discipline to get better, and don’t have any openings memorized or anything like that. Any ...

When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is “The Turk.” In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and diplomat ...

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, against ...

"I got checkmated in 34 moves." Levy Rozman a.k.a. GothamChess plays chess against Stockfish 16, the strongest chess computer in the world, and analyzes the way it thinks in order to apply it to his ...

Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, ...

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“When Beeswax came out in 2009, I felt like there was a sense in the world of, ‘Well, that’s another one of the same from him,'” writer-director Andrew Bujalski says by telephone. “That frustrated me.