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 computers playing chess.

the most powerful chess computer of its day. Today, it seems obvious Kasparov should have lost. A computer's ability to calculate moves in a game by "brute force" is infinitely greater than a human's.

After interacting with chess computers, Hassabis went on to experiment with AI programming at home. Demis Hassabis's first love wasn't AI — it was chess. Decades before the Google DeepMind CEO ...

If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play.

He was, after all, the man who beat the first sophisticated chess computer, IBM’s Deep Blue, and then, in what many regard as a landmark in the relationship between human and artificial ...

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

One reply is: First, can a machine be made to play a good game of chess? How a computer was programmed so that it could defeat an inexperienced human opponent ...

"We were supposed to be using these chess computers to train opening theory and learn more about chess, but I remember being fascinated by the fact that someone had programmed this lump of ...