Chess is an antique, about 1,500 years old, according to most historians. As a result, its evolution seems essentially complete, a hoary game now largely trudging along. That’s not to say that ...

Have a good mind for computational chess problem-solving? Want to earn $1 million? Then the University of St. Andrews and Clay Mathematics Institute sure have the competition for you.

How one computer taught itself to be a chess ‘international master’ in 72 hours A new computer program called Giraffe plays chess with help from artificial intelligence.

The first program-assisted chess algorithm was created by Alan Turing.Fifty years later, IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Blue, emerged. Russian chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov played ...

The following year, Turing created the first computer chess playing algorithm, and lacking a suitable machine to run it on, Turing himself took the role of the computer, manually calculating moves ...

Software moderation is improving, ... The team tested the new algorithms on comments from 8,000 chess videos and found that while only one percent of comments were flagged as hate speech, ...

People have been interested in chess-playing computers before there were any chess-playing computers. In a 1950 paper, [Claude Shannon] defined two major chess-playing strategies. Apparently, pract… ...

It could process chess positions "at the incredible rate of about 200,000 per second, or about 30,000,000-40,000,000 per move," gushed the program for the ACM's 11th North American Chess Championship.

James Somers on AlphaZero, an artificial-intelligence program animated by an algorithm so powerful that you could give it the rules of humanity’s richest and most studied games and, later that ...

Released in 2020, the AI program from Chess.com is a remarkably effective tutor, able to adapt to your skill level, offer tips and hints, and help you review past mistakes as you learn new ...