Since at least the 1950s, chess has served as a kind of benchmark for machine intelligence. IBM’s Deep Blue shocked the world in 1997 when it beat then-world champion Garry Kasparov. That machine used ...

The Arati 2600 from the late 1970s is not exactly cutting-edge hardware, but it's apparently powerful enough to beat ChatGPT ...

The chatbot 'made enough blunders to get laughed out of a third-grade chess club,' according to the developer who set up the contest.

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Google has released a new chess website that puts one fun twist on the game ...

Novelty sets can make for fun gifts, too. If your giftee is interested in chess ... picking up a piece, and making your move. James Austin is a staff writer currently covering games and hobbies ...

You can even move across different boards with your pieces, winning (or losing) as many games of chess as possible. When booting the game up, I was staring down 12 different matches of chess on my ...

Luckily, as fans of the book series and movies will certainly remember, there’s an alternative in the form of wizard chess pieces, the game that Harry and Ron are fond of playing that proves ...

The game of chess has long been central ... Barthelemy has re-imagined a chess match as a network of forces in which pieces act as the network's nodes, and the ways they interact represent the ...

You can now play a game of chess using the pieces, against the computer. Simply choose a difficulty level and a time for the timer, then click 'Play chess' to start. You're white and it's your go ...