Last year, my son joined the middle school chess club and began using me, a total novice, as his sparring partner. In chess, a player can choose from one of 20 opening moves, including moving a ...

Chess.com reaches a new membership milestone as it nears its 20th birthday. Chess.com, the online chess platform that was founded in 2005 and launched in 2007, has surpassed 200 million members ...

Duolingo launched a beta version of a chess course on Tuesday, April 22. The new, free course teaches users how each chess piece moves through short puzzles, lead by the app's in-game chess coach ...

The ancient game of chess is one steeped in tradition, with a history dating back centuries. It was once a game purely of endurance, a test of patience with titanic battles often taking days to ...

After interacting with chess computers, Hassabis went on to experiment with AI programming at home. Demis Hassabis's first love wasn't AI — it was chess. Decades before the Google DeepMind CEO ...

Computers have been an integral part of chess since 1997. Back then, the IBM mainframe computer Deep Blue beat the then-world champion Gary Kasparov. The next big developmental step came in 2017 ...

An electrical engineer and computer scientist in addition to world champion, Botvinnik foresaw the dominance of chess computers decades before Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov. Botvinnik studied and ...

Cheating in chess has become more commonplace in the age of technology, with more players choosing to battle over computers because of the connectivity it offers. Since then, with improvements to ...

In March 2022, he posted on X, formerly Twitter, "Chess is a simple game. Understandable when all we had to play with were squirrels and rocks, but now we have computers." Musk's preference for ...

In our latest study, we explored how AI transformed the domain of chess. Chess computers have been at the frontier of AI and exemplify two fundamental aspects: complexity and the capability to mimic ...