“If you want to know what the future of AI looks like, look at chess. It happened to us first, and it’s going to happen to all of you.” Reading time 13 minutes In May of 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down ...

The result is that it takes my opponents by complete surprise and creates total pandemonium in their minds. It freezes their ...

World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and his super-computer opponent "Deep Fritz" share the points and honors as the "Brains in Bahrain" match ends. MANAMA, Bahrain--World chess champion Vladimir ...

If Russian novelist and Crimean War veteran Leo Tolstoy is right about war being a chess match, we may not have to worry so much about fighting AI-led robots on a futuristic, “Terminator” like ...

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.

This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. Since Friday, Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi have been spending their days in a glass box in Dubai, vying for ...

Every year features plenty of excellent games, and the 1970s were no exception. These were the most popular games each year in the '70s.

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

It will come as no surprise that I was a member of the chess club and that I've played "The Game of Kings" for almost six decades. Digital Chess has been a part of my life for almost as long, starting ...