The latest from Boston-born mumblecore auteur Andrew Bujalski (“Funny Ha Ha”), “Computer Chess” is amusing enough at first. The film is a fictionalized retelling of the evolution of computer chess in ...
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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 ...
In 1980, toy giant Mattel released Computer Chess, a lower-cost, consumer-friendly portable chess computer with a battery-friendly LCD and no pieces to lose. But it was no slouch in the brains ...