The checkmate heard round the world happened twenty years ago last month, when reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost a game of chess to a computer, IBM's Deep Blue. Though Kasparov would ...

The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess ...

Computer chess programs can handily beat the best human players in the world—and their games are no less fascinating By Christopher Chabris Share Norway's Magnus Carlsen during the FIDE World ...

That was the beginning of the chess computer club in Moscow. I brought 53 Ataris [home] as payment for my contract [laughs] And that's how we started first computer club in the Soviet Union.

Complexity theory remains one of the great unsolved mathematical puzzles. Kenneth Regan is trying to figure it out.

His fascination with chess computers bloomed into an interest in computing in general, leading to his "experimenting" with the Amiga 500 — an early home computer.

Matteo Wong: So the basic idea is that chess-playing artificial intelligence, which are known as “chess engines,” are significantly better at this point than any human.

With help from computer chess software engineer Gary Linscott, these chess pros identify why Stockfish is virtually unbeatable by a human, from opening move to endgame.The charts depicting minimax ...

My chess senses are very rusty. So even against a weak computer opponent I am making dumb mistakes. It occurred to me that a computer could help you get better.

WASHINGTON—It may surprise you to learn that it's more difficult for a computer to play poker, perhaps the world's most popular card game, than chess, the pastime of deep thinkers.