Of course, the tricky part is explaining the whole corporeal thing to a piece of software on your computer. Enter the “Chess Challenger” by [slash/byte]. Modeled after a commercial gadget of ...

A 17-year-old has crafted the ultimate tool to cheat at chess by using Ray-Ban Meta glasses to show the best moves in over-the-board games.

Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...

The software was first released in 2008 and has been built on by volunteers in the years since. The open source project has been beaten by another program, Komodo, in two major computer chess ...