[Arthur Benemann] started a little project for his electrical engineering program, and suffered the worst case of feature creep we’ve ever seen. He just posted an instructable of his picChess ...

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 ...

While supercomputers—most famously IBM’s Deep Blue —have long surpassed the world’s best human chess players, generative AI still lags behind due to their underlying programming parameters.