If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play.

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 ...

This smart chess board blends the tactile joy of in-person play with the global reach of online opponents.

Nicholas Carlini wrote a 2-ply minimax chess engine with 84,688 regular expressions. It's not a massive mangled choose-your-own adventure through common openings made of if conditions: it follows the ...

The system consists of a computer chip attached to tiny flexible ... He added that before his injury, he used to 'love playing chess', continuing: 'This is one of the things that y'all have ...

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 ...

A 17-year-old has crafted the ultimate tool to cheat at chess by using Ray-Ban Meta glasses to show the best moves in over-the-board games.

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 ...

Fide has warned the Freestyle Chess Players Club - co-owned by Carlsen - not to call its new series a “World Championship”.

demonstrating during a livestream that he can now move a computer cursor to play chess using the device. Photo: Neuralink ...