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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

As a kid, I recall my older brother, an avid player, struggling against a computer chess system built right into a plastic chess board with a simple LED display. In 1997, the Deep Blue system ...