If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play.

A British scientist has credited playing chess with helping him win the Nobel Prize. Sir Demis Hassabis, the chief executive ...

Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...

Over the centuries Chess has become a proxy for geopolitical conflict where rivalries are played out over a board game.

The winner of a Xiangqi, or Chinese chess, tournament has been stripped of his title after allegations of inappropriate behaviour. Yan Chenglong has also been accused of cheating by using a ...

In international law, access to information and free expression are two sides of the same coin, and both have found tremendous accelerators in the Internet and other forms of digital communication.

Long before Demis Hassabis pioneered artificial intelligence techniques to earn a Nobel prize, he was a master of board games ...

When OpenAI raised $6.6 billion of fresh capital last week, the pioneering artificial intelligence startup’s implied $157 ...

The Kremlin said on Monday that a decision by the general assembly of FIDE, the governing body of chess, to uphold a ban on Russian and Belarusian players was the result of Western and Ukrainian ...

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

Indian chess prodigies are gearing up to make their mark as they are set to come in full force for the Asian Juniors and ...

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