T his is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a ...

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

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...

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

With winter semester coming to an end, students across the Brigham Young University campus took time to reflect on what this ...

SenseRobot, a pioneer in consumer-grade artificial intelligence and home robotics, today announced the global launch ...

Chess players now get scanned to check for electrical devices. But no one is entirely sure these methods are watertight ...

The Uzbek 20-year-old won first prize unbeaten but his girlfriend, Bibisara Assaubayeva, finished second to the lowest seed in the Women’s Candidates ...

Carlsen had no proof, just a feeling. His theory was that somehow Niemann was getting help from a computer. This was before ChatGPT, but even then, computers could easily beat even the best humans by ...

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 ...

Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess, author Ben Mezrich explores every angle of the match where Niemann improbably beat Carlsen, leading Carlsen to imply that Niemann had ...

For more than a decade, the Sinquefield Cup has been a key stop on the Grand Chess Tour, bringing together some of the world’s top players in a competition that helps define the highest level of the ...