As computers get better at chess, their games look more human. Their moves seem more connected to known strategic plans, and when they aren’t, the logic can still often be discerned by experts. But ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Battle Chess: Game of Kings, a remake for the 1988 classic, is out now on Steam Early Access. You ...

It was a pivotal moment in computing history when a computer beat a human at chess for the first time, but that doesn't mean chess is "solved." Pixabay On this day 21 years ago, the world changed ...

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 ...

Feral Interactive has had a beta patch in distribution for a while now, but made it official on Wednesday with the release of Chessmaster 9000 v1.0.2. The updated version of Feral’s chess game fixes a ...

Google Labs, the experimental arm of the tech giant, has introduced a new online project that offers an entertaining variation of the game of chess. The web experiment is named GenChess, which, as the ...