Free Online Chess ( www.chessmaniac.com) an Online Chess LLC website is now beta testing a new tournament format know as the Swiss System Tournament. A Swiss system tournament is a commonly used type ...

As computers get better at chess, their games look more human. Their moves seem more connected to known strategic plans, and when they aren’t, the logic can still often be discerned by experts. But ...

Battle of the 1990s Remember the two tournaments, Garry Kasparov versus Deep Blue? Surely you do. Those 1996 and 1997 events were the most publicized chess games of our time, save for the Cold War ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a lot of people’s interests online, whether that’s playing Dungeons & Dragons over Zoom or taking virtual workout classes. But at least one of these interests, online ...

The sixth game of the World Chess Championship was over before the sun set. This was new. The intricately fought contests had thus far lasted until night fell, and sometimes well beyond. The darkness ...

It was a pivotal moment in computing history when a computer beat a human at chess for the first time, but that doesn't mean chess is "solved." Pixabay On this day 21 years ago, the world changed ...

It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have ...

Thanks to over 3,000 backers a new electronic, connected chess computer and board have taken Kickstarter by storm raising over $900,000 with still 24 days remaining. ChessUp is a new chess computer ...

Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, ...