The Centaur Smart Chess Set adjusts to your level of ability so it feels like you're playing a challenging—but not too challenging—opponent.

In a world first, a machine plays chess by evaluating the board rather than using brute force to work out every possible move.

Robert Hearn works in the field of computer intelligence. He compares computers in action on the chess board with their ability in the game known as Go. Go has far more moves and positions ...

Maia, on the other hand, is a new chess engine that seeks to emulate, not surpass, human-level chess performance.

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The wooden chess clock is compatible with any chessboard and allows you to select a level that suits your style of play as well as retaining all the components of a classical chess timepiece.

Having a computer opponent can help chess players train, writes Finley, but Kasparov also said the original draw of teaching computers to play chess wasn’t just about teaching them to win.

This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and shogi -- in just a few hours, a new study reports.