Though Kasparov would go on to win the six-game match in Philadelphia four games to two, the point had been made. A computer had defeated the best chess-playing human in the world.

The checkmate heard round the world happened twenty years ago last month, when reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost a game of chess to a computer, IBM's Deep Blue. Though Kasparov would ...

In a preprint paper, researchers at Alphabet's DeepMind detail MuZero, an algorithm that effectively teaches itself how to play Atari and board games.

Man was improving incrementally. Computers were improving exponentially. Now, 21 years on, the chess computer has matured. Any one of several chess apps on your mobile phone can outclass top ...

Chess has traditionally been a sport that is played as much on the board as it is in the mind. Over the years, the advent of machines (read computers) gave a fillip to this sport and five-time ...

A game from the Komodo-Stockfish match in the recent Thoresen Chess Engines Competition shows that computers can play interesting games.

The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess ...

After defeating an expert in Japanese chess, this computer program's next task is to figure out if you can make the payments on a new mortgage.