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 ...

The random setup of pieces in Chess960 makes the game in many ways a better match for computerized play than conventional chess, where opening moves are usually stored in a database. By Kevin Poulsen.

Computers Are Great at Chess, But That Doesn’t Mean the Game Is ‘Solved’ On this day in 1996, the computer Deep Blue made history when it beat Garry Kasparov Kat Eschner February 10, 2017 ...

While world no 2 chess player Hikaru Nakamura will stream the action on his Twitch stream with his insights, Magnus Carlsen will do an event-ending recap for the Take Take Take app.