But advanced chess has turned out to have a great future — behind it. It never caught on. Earlier this year, world women’s champion Anna Ushenina drew a match with fellow Ukrainian Olena Boytsun.

"You start to see how important just one move is," says Rose about chess. "And that one move is a choice in life.” ...

Without previous experience with advanced chess programs, you'll be lost. But, on the other hand, if you've played Fritz 8, you'll be at home here, as not much has changed in terms of presentation.

Beyond chess, that has huge implications. We've made an assumption that while computers will take over just about anything that can be automated, humans will be able to add value through talent ...

Many experts, Fischer included, agree advanced chess had become, and would continue to be, increasingly reliant on rote memorization of complex, predetermined opening strategies, ...

In a series of advanced chess tournaments played in 2005 to 2008, I corroborated that human-computer teams actually made better moves [than a computer playing alone].

Computer chess engines surpassed the world’s best human players in the 1990s. They can calculate millions of moves per second, ... “Adam has an impressive knowledge of advanced chess gaming software ...