July 4, 2019 Auto Chess is not actually set to launch this week. Teamfight Tactics and Dota Underlords are busy staking their claim on the emerging autobattle genre, but the team behind the original ...

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 ...

The auto-battler wars are well underway on PC now, with Valve's Dota Underlords and Riot's Teamfight Tactics currently duking it out for supremacy. But the studio that kicked this trend off to begin ...

So-named because you'd have to be high to try it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While it's something of a fool's game to ...

Years ago, [Leo Neumann]’s girlfriend gave him a 1970s chess computer game that was missing almost everything but the super cool clicky keyboard. Noting the similarity of chess move labeling to chord ...

It’s no secret that computers can smoke humans at chess. And now, as if to further mock our mere organic forms, scientists say they’ve created a computer made out of DNA that can play the board game — ...

Thanks to over 3,000 backers a new electronic, connected chess computer and board have taken Kickstarter by storm raising over $900,000 with still 24 days remaining. ChessUp is a new chess computer ...

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, ...

Computers have been beating humans at chess for decades, and they’re now so predictably good at it that chess grandmasters won’t even bother to compete against them. But in what feels like a gesture ...

In scenes reminiscent of the game's 20th century heyday, where dark rumours of subterfuge and sabotage swirled around countless Russian players, a chess player has been suspended from the game and ...