The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...
T his is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a ...
Chess players now get scanned to check for electrical devices. But no one is entirely sure these methods are watertight ...
China's chess grandmaster Wei Yi finished fourth in his debut at the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, an achievement that ...
Anthropic’s Mythos is causing a massive flurry of ridiculous levels of interest in AI as a security threat. This threat has ...
Opinion

Robots are coming

The world changed on February 10, 1996, when a computer called Deep Blue beat chess champion Garry Kasparov. It may have changed last Sunday again in Beijing, when a human-shaped robot ran a ...
James Gunn is calling checkmate on someone... but who?
By Will Dunham April 22 (Reuters) - An autonomous robot ping-pong player dubbed Ace has achieved a milestone for AI and ...
We can get silicon to "think" but the neuron can't be beat for efficiency. So, researchers worked to imitate it.
Military strategists use game theory to evaluate possible strategies—but there are limits to what this approach to ...
But now, a new AI-driven robot built by Sony, named Ace, has officially defeated elite human table tennis players. Look ...