Ever since he beat the greatest chess player who ever lived, Hans Niemann has been called a cheat. The 19-year-old’s surprising victory over Magnus Carlsen in St. Louis on September 4 led to ...

Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand on Thursday said that in an era dominated by computer analysis and overwhelming data, deep understanding remains the only true differentiator in modern chess ...

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

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 ...

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training ...