The growth of computer chess technology also highlighted the advances in the field of artificial intelligence, the branch of science focused on building machines that can mimic human thinking.

For years, the game of chess has been seen as a litmus test for how far AI can go against the human intellect. When IBM’s ...

The drawback of this approach went on spectacular display last year in a computer-versus-computer match in the Netherlands pitting a strong PC-based commercial chess program called Shredder ...