Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15 years. It’s ...

Dec. 1—A talk with Mark Galassi, even if it spans a few minutes, is likely to be a sweeping conversation, one that soars way out into the galaxy and plunges deep down into the human psyche. It's a ...

AIs have defeated humans at even more computationally difficult games. This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and ...

Aberdeen University in Scotland is planning to start the world's first doctoral program in chess this year, and is actively pursuing former world champion Gary Kasparov to lecture there, the BBC ...

In what may be one of the bigger achievements in artificial intelligence since IBM's Deep Blue computer beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, a computer program developed by the British AI ...

In the summer of 1977, Bobby Fischer was in self-imposed exile in Pasadena, California. The greatest chess player on Earth at the time, Fischer had joined an apocalyptic cult and covered the windows ...