A lot of computers can play chess. [Matthew Lui’s] Giraffe is a chess playing computer, but unlike other common chess programs, Giraffe taught itself to play. It apparently learned pretty well ...

Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...

Kirill Shevchenko, a grandmaster who represents Romania, has been accused of getting assistance from a computer in the middle ...

A Romanian chess grandmaster has been expelled from the 2024 Spanish Team Championship after a locked phone found in a ...

It's no secret that computers can smoke humans at chess. And now, as if to further mock our mere organic forms, scientists ...

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

The open source project has been beaten by another program, Komodo, in two major computer chess challenges this year. Even so, one human chess grandmaster was still hugely impressed by DeepMind's ...

The second Saturday in October recognizes National Chess Day. The game challenges players mentally while also breaking down ...

In an incident that generated national headlines, 17-year-old GM Christopher Yoo, upset over a painful Round 5 loss to ...

This sparked a rumor that Yan used electronic anal beads to transmit codes to himself from a chess computer during games in the competition he ended up winning. The CXA claimed these rumors were ...

In 2016, DeepMind became known around the world when its AI-driven computer programme AlphaZero beat the world's top player ...

India’s women players are resetting the board. A recent team gold has shown what is possible. How else are the pieces moving?