It was a war of titans you likely never heard about. One year ago, two of the world’s strongest and most radically different chess engines fought a pitched, 100-game battle to decide the future of ...

For decades, chess has served as a laboratory for studying intelligence and decision-making. It is well established that ...

Since 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue beat world champion and chess legend Garry Kasparov in a six-game match, chess players have accepted that machines are stronger at chess. We have taken some comfort ...

The first time a computer beat a human chess master happened in 1997 when IBM Deep Blue defeated champion, Gary Kasparov. AI systems have advanced in their ability to play chess to the point where no ...

A few months after demonstrating its dominance over the game of Go, DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI has trounced the world’s top-ranked chess engine—and it did so without any prior knowledge of the game and ...

If you are interested in chess or perhaps coding and programming your very own chess engine. You are sure to enjoy this quick guide and overview provided by Bartek Spitza. Programming a chess engine ...

Rybka, the best chess-playing computer program in the world and the winner of the last four World Computer Chess Championships (WCCC), has been disqualified and banned for the plagiarizing of two ...

The chess world is currently consumed by a drama as lurid and compelling, in its way, as the “Don’t Worry Darling” fracas. Involving implications of cheating at the highest levels of play, the feud ...