chess master has been a losing prospect since 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue beat legendary grandmaster Garry Kasparov in a historic tournament. The game is now firmly in artificial intelligence’s ...

A few weeks ago, a group of researchers from Google’s artificial ... is to biologists, so games like Go and chess are to computer scientists studying the mechanisms of intelligence.

Chess has long been a touchstone for testing new ideas in artificial intelligence ... using the Penrose puzzle arrangement as the starting position, instead of the full board of typical games.

But Matthew Lai wants to make chess-playing computers smarter. For part of his Masters degree at Imperial College London, Lai trained artificial ... other computers’ games, and then applied ...

Thousands of Indian players play chess at a university ground Thousands of Indian players play chess at a university ground Amit Dave/Reuters Google's AlphaZero program, after teaching itself ...

His over the board progress has been unusual, and throughout our game in the Sinquefield ... play the “perfect” chess match and signaled the rise of artificial intelligence’s effect on ...