The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest ...

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 ...

Elite chess players are abandoning engine-approved strategies in favor of wild, hard-to-predict moves designed to break ...

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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 ...

“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 ...

But last weekend, it lost a game of chess. Not to a human grandmaster or even to some other fancy AI. It lost to an Atari 2600 that first appeared in the 1970s and can only calculate one or two chess ...

"I got checkmated in 34 moves." Levy Rozman a.k.a. GothamChess plays chess against Stockfish 16, the strongest chess computer in the world, and analyzes the way it thinks in order to apply it to his ...

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...