“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 ...

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.

If Russian novelist and Crimean War veteran Leo Tolstoy is right about war being a chess match, we may not have to worry so much about fighting AI-led robots on a futuristic, “Terminator” like ...

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

When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.

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 ...

World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and his super-computer opponent "Deep Fritz" share the points and honors as the "Brains in Bahrain" match ends. MANAMA, Bahrain--World chess champion Vladimir ...

It will come as no surprise that I was a member of the chess club and that I've played "The Game of Kings" for almost six decades. Digital Chess has been a part of my life for almost as long, starting ...