It’s been almost 20 years since IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat the reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, for the first time under standard tournament rules. Since then, chess-playing ...

In the game between chess and artificial intelligence, Google DeepMind’s researchers have made yet another move, this time teaming up with ex-chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik to design and trial ...

Chess is also simple to learn and impossible to master. The rules take an afternoon, and after that, you have a game with ...

A few months after demonstrating its dominance over the game of Go, DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI has trounced the world’s top-ranked chess engine—and it did so without any prior knowledge of the game and ...