But leaving the supercomputers out, battling with world champions, how did this challenging sport reach the video game world? The attempts to create a chess-playing computer date back to 1950, when one of the first papers on the problem of the computer chess was published. With all this popularity it could not avoid entering the video game era as a part of it.
Being a fantastic mind game of strategy and logic, it is one of the most popular board games and sports of today.
The game of chess finds its roots all the way back in 7th century.