For years, the game of chess has been seen as a litmus test for how far AI can go against the human intellect. When IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat reigning Chess world champion Garry Kasparov in ...

For a game whose rules can be taught to a small child, chess is bewilderingly complicated—there are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe, and despite the ...

Discover how computers play chess, from the Mechanical Turk to advanced chess engines and their strategies against human opponents.

Almost a year ago exactly, DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence (AI) division owned by Google parent company Alphabet, made headlines with preprint research ("Mastering Chess and Shogi by ...

At first glance, trying to play chess against a large language model (LLM) seems like a daft idea, as its weighted nodes have, at most, been trained on some chess-adjacent texts. It has no concept of ...