Of all the things to make a movie out of, why a bunch of computer science geeks trying to make a program that can beat a human at chess? Writer, director and editor Andrew Bujalski’s one-of-a-kind ...

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There's humor and insight to be found in a group of early-1980s computer nerds going to a convention to see whose computer is the best chess player. Computer Chess has this opportunity, but ...

BootChess' developer says he hopes to inspire the creation of other small programs A French coder has developed what is thought to be the smallest-sized chess computer program. BootChess is only 487 ...

Movies about the past, if they’re any good, tend to express some sort of anxiety about the present. By that measure, it’s not difficult to see at a glance what prompted indie filmmaker Andrew Bujalski ...

The self-taught chess engine, known as “Giraffe,” was designed by graduate student Matthew Lai. Computers can already squash human opponents at chess by using their great computational speed to ...

Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess is a little movie, but it's packed with a lot of nerdy and a lot of weird. The nerd factor should be at least somewhat evident from the title: It's about a group of ...

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 ...

According to legend, the inventor of chess gave his game to the Sultan of India in exchange for a rice grain that would double progressively for each of the board’s 64 squares. It was a cheat. No one ...