If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play.

The history of modern AI is closely associated with chess. But the ancient game has so far been a stumbling block for the most advanced of models of today.

An curved arrow pointing right. A co-lead at Google's Big Picture data visualization group has created an online version of chess called the Thinking Machine 6, which lets you play against a ...

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

One of his investments was ChessPark, a site he cofounded that enabled users to play against a computer, other people, or even celebrities in the chess world. RZA had grown up poor on Staten ...

A 17-year-old has crafted the ultimate tool to cheat at chess by using Ray-Ban Meta glasses to show the best moves in over-the-board games.

The firm's DeepMind division says that it played 100 games against Stockfish 8 ... in two major computer chess challenges this year. Even so, one human chess grandmaster was still hugely impressed ...

The Pi handles chess tasks—checking the validity of moves, acting as a computer opponent, and connecting online for games against other humans if so desired. Everything is wrapped up with 3D ...