A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest player in history. However, it cannot replace him. These super-strong platforms ...

A decade ago, Hassabis's lifelong enduring love of play and AI led to AlphaGo beating the world's deepest board game. The ...

The SenseRobot AI Xiangqi Championship, which was held in Shanghai, was the first Chinese chess competition that has featured ...

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess in 2022—which spiraled out of control with allegations of a player using ...

Julia Gale is one of the co-founders of Beers by the Bay Chess & Social, a social club started with co-founders Mark Laturno and Aidan Ryan in 2024. It works just like the name says—they meet up each ...

A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and ...

Magnus Carlsen (left) and Hans Niemann at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships in 2025, playing each other again three years after the scandal involving the pair Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty ...

From 68 teams, to just two. The 2026 Men's NCAA Tournament is down to its final game: the national championship game between No. 1 seed Michigan and No. 2 seed UConn. ARMOUR: Yaxel Lendeborg is best ...

Last week leading chipmaker Nvidia announced DLSS-5 (Deep Learning Super Sampling), a new artificial intelligence (AI) rendering tool it describes as a “breakthrough in visual fidelity for games”. The ...

PARIS, March 26 (Reuters) - The chess Candidates tournament opens on Sunday with a throwback feel — eight players, long-time controls and the game in its purest form — but also with a sense that this ...

Sony AI has unveiled a major robotics milestone with Project Ace, an autonomous system ...