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.

Chess is the world’s favorite board game, with an estimated 605 million players globally, thanks to studies by FIDE and ...

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

Complexity science has changed the way researchers think about the climate, the economy and ecosystems. Is it about to do the same for chess?

An curved arrow pointing right. A co-lead at Google's Big Picture data visualization group has created an online version of chess called the Thinking Machine 6, which lets you play against a ...

Chess is an extraordinarily easy game to cheat at. Computer programs have handily beaten human players ever since Deep Blue versus Kasparov in 1997. And there's no easy remedy. At the most basic ...

Just like any retiree, former Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto is spending his days perfecting his hobbies − ...

Kirill Shevchenko, a grandmaster who represents Romania, has been accused of getting assistance from a computer in the middle of games. By Victor Mather A top chess player was expelled from an ...

India’s Arjun Erigaisi is currently the fastest rising star in world chess. The 21-year-old has even tacitly signalled a ...

Tamerlan has created a Raspberry Pi-powered chess board that automatically moves pieces and has programmed it to be an opponent you can play against.

play the game far better than any unaided human being. The watershed moment in computerised chess came in 1997 when the world champion, Garry Kasparov, was defeated by a computer called Deep Blue.