Yiming Zhang didn't grow up playing chess. Like many other people, the Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student discovered ...

"I wanted to create a challenging alternative to conventional chess games that would require a heightened sense of awareness for developing strategies," said an inventor, from Chester, Va., "so I ...

It was a totemic moment in the progression of technology’s ability to play the “perfect” chess match and signaled the rise of artificial intelligence’s effect on chess.