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Oliver Roeder is a journalist, author and games player. He is a former senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, where he covered the World Chess Championship and other gaming pursuits. The following is ...

Kids That Code (KTC), an initiative aimed at empowering kids for the future by encouraging them to code early, has partnered with a non-profit organization, Chess In Slums Africa, to help ...

Henk Scheepers, a Game Development lecturer at Vega, has released a prototype of a tactical, chess-inspired indie game titled Magnus, in honour of the world’s leading chess player.

These newer models appear more likely to indulge in rule-bending behaviors than previous generations—and there’s no way to stop them. Facing defeat in chess, the latest generation of AI reasoning ...