Computing, as a science and an industry, has always been intimately connected with games, and with none more so than chess. The quest to build a computer grandmaster has helped bring focus to ...

Chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by actress Anya Taylor-Joy, reads a chess pamphlet in Netflix's miniseries "The Queen Gambit." Netflix Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" has inspired a surge of interest ...

In late November, the latest official world chess championship match was staged in a large hall in the Olympic city of Sochi, Russia. The games were broadcast on the Internet with live commentary and ...

Computers have been beating humans at chess for decades, and they’re now so predictably good at it that chess grandmasters won’t even bother to compete against them. But in what feels like a gesture ...

Twelve-year-old Gary Leschinsky is a nationally-ranked chess player in the U.S. He has a bright future ahead of him — but it may not be in chess. Why? The reality is that there’s not much future for ...

"I got checkmated in 34 moves." Levy Rozman a.k.a. GothamChess plays chess against Stockfish 16, the strongest chess computer in the world, and analyzes the way it thinks in order to apply it to his ...

It will come as no surprise that I was a member of the chess club and that I've played "The Game of Kings" for almost six decades. Digital Chess has been a part of my life for almost as long, starting ...

Demis Hassabis's first love wasn't AI — it was chess. Decades before the Google DeepMind CEO would be co-awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — thanks to helping develop an AI tool that predicted ...