Maybe it has to do with having programmed a computer in high school in the first half of the seventies—a computer the size of a double-wide fridge and covered with blinking lights. Our after-school ...

So far the funniest, headiest, most playfully eccentric American indie of the year, Andrew Bujalski's perceptive avant-garde comedy Computer Chess-- set circa 1980 with an Anytown, America's worth of ...

Since the 18th century, people have been fascinated by the idea of machines that could play chess against humans. With the advent of the digital electronic computer in the mid-20th century, that dream ...