Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Advanced computer programs have long been so good at chess that they ...

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 ...

For a few days, chess fans could be forgiven for wondering if the end of the game was in sight. At the World Chess Championships in Dubai last week, reigning champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway and ...

Stockfish is a powerful chess analysis app. Play two-player games on the beautiful chess board, or get instant accurate analysis of any game. Stockfish will tell you who's winning and calculate 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 ...

It was as if a bottom seed had knocked out the top team in March Madness: At the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament in St. Louis earlier this month, an upstart American teenager named Hans Niemann ...

Developed by Daylen Yang, Stockfish is a free and open-source chess app for Mac based on the Stockfish chess engine. The app does a couple of interesting things: it’s Retina-ready and it can go ...

Fritz 9 is the latest version of the superpowered chess engine that was able to defeat Garry Kasparov, one of the world's best players. If that sounds like a challenge you're up to then Fritz 9 won't ...