The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess ...

AIs have defeated humans at even more computationally difficult games. This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and ...

Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15 years. It’s ...

Checkers, Othello, Connect-Four, backgammon, Scrabble, shogi, Chinese chess and poker have all been the subject of serious computer scientific study.

Had Computer Chess been content to stick with this observational mode, it probably would have made a terrific period satire, sharp but affectionate.

(CNN) – In a showdown of man versus machine the machine is winning. A computer program built by Google now leads in a best of five contest against the world’s top player in a very complex board game.

Aberdeen University in Scotland is planning to start the world's first doctoral program in chess this year, and is actively pursuing former world champion Gary Kasparov to lecture there, the BBC ...

Director Andrew Bujalski talks about capturing an authentic vintage geek look and casting real tech heads in his fourth feature. Andrew Bujalski is neither a computer whiz nor a chess genius. “I was ...