Google’s artificial intelligence sibling DeepMind repurposes Go-playing AI to conquer chess and shogi without aid of human knowledge AlphaZero, the game-playing AI created by Google sibling DeepMind, ...

In life, just like in chess, every move matters. A single decision can set off a chain reaction, leading you closer to success or trapping you in setbacks. While grandmasters spend years mastering the ...

This post is part 2 of a series. Daniel C. Dennett is an emeritus professor at Tufts University and one of the most influential philosophers and cognitive scientists of his generation. In my podcast ...

Legal battles require the same skills seen at the highest levels of chess. Elnur/Shutterstock.com Paul Morphy was a 19th-century New Orleans chess prodigy who was the de facto world chess champion ...

A chess board is a special place. A game of chess always begins from the same starting position, giving you and your opponent exactly the same material, which is placed symmetrically opposite each ...

The fifth-best chess player in the world brought out his queen on the third move. Today, on day two of a four-game chess exhibition between grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura and Komodo, the single strongest ...

Chess has enjoyed a sharp rise in popularity in the 2020s. The spike began during COVID lockdowns and increased when Chess.com created its first PogChamps tournament on Twitch in 2020, which proved ...