Regan acknowledges that, without those computers, known as chess engines, his model would not work. Of course, without those same engines, many players would struggle to cheat in the first place.

Since the mid-2000s, when the skill of chess engines leapt past humans’, computers have become essential to elite preparation: Players must memorize long sequences of moves that a computer deems ...

Deep Blue could search through hundreds of millions of chess positions a second to find the best move. “As soon as computers know how to do something, people say it’s not intelligence anymore ...

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 computers playing chess.

And with that, we should probably talk about the mechanics of a modern chess cheat. These days, it's all about computers. Chess engines surpassed the elite grandmasters in the 1990s (you may have ...

Since then, Penrose and others have devised sprawling collections of puzzles that computers struggle to solve. Chess has long been a touchstone for testing new ideas in artificial intelligence, ...

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 ...

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 ...