A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still ...

Maybe Niemann, the phenom of the first computer-trained generation, is now on track to become the best chess player ever. And maybe chess, a small and nerdy subdomain of human culture, happens to ...

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training ...

A laptop computer displays Chetan Cherukuri’s website, “Courtyard Chess Club.” Chetan, 16, developed the website to promote chess and tutor young people on how to play the game.

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 ...

Computer chess engines surpassed the world’s best human players in the 1990s. They can calculate millions of moves per second, allowing them to quickly make the best decision on the board. So why ...

The Kenya Open Chess Championship, which boasts an impressive prize fund of $42,000, has attracted almost 450 players from 22 federations. The tournament ran from April 6-10, 2023, at the Sarit ...

For those unfamiliar with chess and its rating system, a 100-point gain for a 2,000-ish player is difficult to achieve. The best U.S. grandmasters (2.500 minimum ranking) in the world hover in ...

At the Weissenhaus Resort, the world’s top players will come together, among them Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Dommaraju Gukesh, the newly crowned world chess champion, who is 18 years old.

“Anti-computer chess means you play rope-a-dope chess,” said Kenneth Regan, a computer science professor at the University of Buffalo renowned for his chess research.

Scientists developed a computer made from DNA that can solve simple chess and Sudoku puzzles, and some day could help advance the training of artificial intelligence models. The potential ...

For the last several years, the world’s best chess, checkers, backgammon, and go player has been a computer. And it will almost certainly stay that way forever.