2011: IBM’s Watson, a question-answering computer, defeated the two greatest champions in the American quiz show Jeopardy!, Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. Watson won $1m first prize.

A computer beat out world chess champion Garry Kasparov two decades ago. DeepMind has trained previous versions of the program by giving it a database full of thousands of human-played games of Go.

Google. has hit a milestone for artificial intelligence, as its AlphaGo computer outwitted the world champion of the ancient Chinese board game of Go. “We are very excited about this historic ...

HARI SREENIVASAN: Scientists have developed a program to beat the Chinese board game Go. The object of the game is to surround and control more area of the board with markers than your opponent.

Reason enough for a quiz on board games. 1 Let’s start with a question on Monopoly. In 2013, the Iron was finally abandoned as a monopoly piece after a month-long vote on Facebook.

Linkee Game, £17.99. With close to 2,000 praise-filled reviews on Amazon, Linkee is a popular and highly rated quiz game with a difference. Taking just two minutes to learn and 30 minutes to play ...

BOARD GAME nights are a fun way to make time pass while in lockdown, but why not mix your favourite pastime with a quiz this week? Here are 15 questions for your board game quiz.

How well do you remember classic video games from the 80's? Did you own a SEGA MasterSystem or NES or were you cool and owned a Spectrum on BBC Micro? What ever games machine you owned, one thing ...