There was a time, not long ago, when computers—mere assemblages of silicon and wire and plastic that can fly planes, drive cars, translate languages, and keep failing hearts beating—could ...

Hoyle Majestic Chess focuses on those new to the game, and it features a fun and innovative way to learn how to play chess. How do you market a new PC chess program? Chess is chess, and today's ...

Focused on a group of proto-computer nerds involved in a tournament to devise first-rate chess software for their clunky machines, the movie relishes the awkward expressions of brilliance from its ...

Director Andrew Bujalski talks about capturing an authentic vintage geek look and casting real tech heads in his fourth feature. Andrew Bujalski is neither a computer whiz nor a chess genius. “I ...

Andrew Bujalski’s astonishing new film, “Computer Chess” (playing now at Film Forum), which recreates the excitement and strangeness of the early … ...

A black-and-white game gets a black-and-white visual treatment in Computer Chess, the most formally sophisticated movie to date by the New York writer-director Andrew Bujalski. Shot on a vintage ...