Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...

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Chess computers have been around for a long time. Now come the chess robots, at least if it's up to the wishes of the AI company SenseTime from Hong Kong. Its SenseRobot devices face the player at ...

When you reach the door on the right, put the top on the white rook to make a platform to stand on. Then, jump to the handle to open the door. This will lead you into a room with a strange, broken ...

You may have only recently heard about Demis Hassabis. He’s been named one of Time magazine’s “AI architects,” won a Nobel Prize for using the technology to predict protein folding and runs Google’s ...

The auto chess and auto battler genre may have been a flash in the pan, but it's been a fascinating one to watch. It all started with Dota Auto Chess, a custom game mode for Dota 2, which then spun ...

You can see clearly now, the screen tearing is gone—thanks to the ample refresh rates of these on-sale monitors from top brands like Dell and Samsung. I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware ...

Computer science is the study and development of the protocols required for automated processing and manipulation of data. This includes, for example, creating algorithms for efficiently searching ...

There are all kinds of immensely powerful gaming PC setups out there, carefully crafted and assembled with components hand-picked for the most optimal performance to drive your experience. Even the ...

Remember the date. Because February 16, 2011, may likely go down in history as the day that human intelligence was surpassed -- or at least matched -- by the intelligence of computers and software ...

Whether you were gifted a shiny new computer for the holidays or simply have old ones sitting around collecting dust, there are sustainable ways to recycle your old PCs and printers free of charge. A ...