Chess has long had tradition hanging on its shoulders, but over the past couple of years, it’s become something different altogether—a meme generator, a TikTok sensation, and even home to a legendary ...

A game-playing artificial intelligence focused on assigning nurses and prioritizing patients instead of sacrificing pawns and capturing queens is being developed by Adam DeHollander, an operations ...

Duolingo’s new chess course is the clearest illustration of how a large company can use AI coding apps to accelerate product ...

In the decades since IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, artificial intelligence has transformed the way humans play the game, and not always for the ...

On a table in front of you is a chessboard, its pieces frozen midway through a game. It's white's turn to play. How long would it take you to find white's best move? Not a good move or even a great ...

When IBM’s Deep Blue first defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997, the world chess champion accused the company of cheating. There was no way, he thought, that the computer could have beaten him without ...

The World Chess Championship was already a week old when something stunning happened in Game 6: after nearly eight hours of play last Friday, someone actually won. It was the first time in five years ...

Players can take days or even weeks to take a turn, and they have embraced the use of software to find the best moves. By Greg Keener After more than two years of play, Jon Edwards, a retired ...