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Your Move: How to Play Chess on Facebook Messenger

2016-02-05 22:04:04| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

Thank you, clever Facebook coder who surreptitiously added a full game of Chess right into Messenger.

'Pawn Sacrifice' recalls Michigan firm's part in famous chess match

2015-10-06 14:10:27| Furniture - Topix.net

Bill Crooks, 82, can still remember the fascination and tension that surrounded what may be the world's most famous chess match. Set during the height of the Cold War, it pitted American prodigy Bobby Fischer against the Soviet Empire, whose players dominated the game for decades.

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A new (computer) chess champion is crowned, and the continued demise of human Grandmasters

2014-12-30 18:25:33| Extremetech

It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have firmly cemented their lead over puny, fallible meatbags. Today, following the completion of TCEC Season 7, we have a new computer chess world champion called Komodo.

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Viewbits HD Cameras Selected for Web Broadcasts of 2014 U.S. Chess Championships

2014-06-19 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Full Feature GNAT 1080p 60™ and Verio HD™ Remote-Control PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) Cameras Cover Top U.S. Tournaments<br /> <br /> San Diego, California — Viewbits, the industrial cameras division of Computer Modules, Inc., announced that Spectrum Studios chose Viewbits HD cameras for video coverage of the nation’s most prestigious chess tournaments - the 2014 U.S. Championship and 2014 U.S. Women’s Championship, held May 7 through May 20 in St. Louis, Missouri. ...This story is related to the following:High Resolution Cameras | Remote Control Cameras

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