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

Ever since he beat the greatest chess player who ever lived, Hans Niemann has been called a cheat. The 19-year-old’s surprising victory over Magnus Carlsen in St. Louis on September 4 led to ...

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 ...

“If you want to know what the future of AI looks like, look at chess. It happened to us first, and it’s going to happen to all of you.” Reading time 13 minutes In May of 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down ...

Oliver Roeder is a journalist, author and games player. He is a former senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, where he covered the World Chess Championship and other gaming pursuits. The following is ...

On the surface, the question “Why can’t computers play chess?” is ridiculous. Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov back in 1997. Deep Blue, the IBM Computer, won 2 games, Kasparov, the reigning world ...

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training ...