It was as if a bottom seed had knocked out the top team in March Madness: At the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament in St. Louis earlier this month, an upstart American teenager named Hans Niemann ...

D Gukesh's unique approach to chess training, by largely avoiding engines, raises interesting questions about how chess engines can continue to challenge us Today, chess engines are an essential part ...

As computers get better at chess, their games look more human. Their moves seem more connected to known strategic plans, and when they aren’t, the logic can still often be discerned by experts. But ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Almost a year ago exactly, DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence ...

Computer chess engines surpassed the world’s best human players in the 1990s. They can calculate millions of moves per second, allowing them to quickly make the best decision on the board. So why ...

Online chess has zoomed in popularity but cheating is easy and rampant in the format. Even as thousands of player accounts have been blocked and titles revoked for foul play, a large number of ...

In late November, the latest official world chess championship match was staged in a large hall in the Olympic city of Sochi, Russia. The games were broadcast on the Internet with live commentary and ...