The new generation of chess bots eliminates jarring, inhuman moves, extends the rating ladder from true beginner to ...

Jordan Himelfarb’s new book explores the history of the game and the sacrifices necessary to make it to the top ...

NEW DELHI: India’s young chess star D Gukesh has come under criticism from former world champion Anatoly Karpov, who claimed his title win was more down to luck than dominance. Gukesh had defeated ...

In a nutshell: Several of the world's most advanced artificial intelligence models will soon face off in a public chess tournament. The three-day event will feature leading AIs from OpenAI, Google, ...

Many YouTube videos involve humans demonstrating the limitations of AI, usually by asking it silly questions. These videos are beloved, especially by teenagers, but my own teenage son recently showed ...

Former chess world champion José Raúl Capablanca once famously said “I see only one move ahead, but it is always the correct one.” Capablanca, widely hailed as one of the greatest chess players in ...

Abstract: A chess engine, used in computer chess, is a programme that analyses chess or chess-variant positions and produces a move or series of moves that it deems to be the strongest. The back end ...

Okay, sorry for the weird question. But, I play a little chess, and one of the things that vaguely annoys me is that chess engines are kinda slow. Suppose I want to analyze a position to a certain ...

In the decades since IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, artificial intelligence has transformed the way humans play the game, and not always for the ...