Deep Blue originated as the ChipTest chess-playing computer at Carnegie Mellon University in the mid-1980s. Evolving into Deep Thought under IBM's direction, it won the North American and World ...

The development of Deep Blue began in 1985 with the ChipTest project at Carnegie Mellon University. The system was predominantly based on brute force computing power to play chess. It comprised a ...

Now, Barthelmey has taken things one step further by publishing a new paper in the journal Physical Review E that treats chess as a complex system, producing a handy metric that can help predict the ...