Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently published a study seeking to understand why a YouTube chess channel with over one million subscribers had a live interview pulled for "harmful and ...

Have a good mind for computational problem-solving? Fancy netting a cool $1 million for your efforts? Then the University of St. Andrews and the Clay Mathematics Institute sure have the competition ...

For the blind players in “Algorithms,” chess is not just a mental game but a tactile one. Sociologist Ian McDonald’s first feature-length documentary profiles three Indian teen boys competing in blind ...

When mediocre chess player Arcangelo Ricciardi entered Italy’s prestigious International Chess Festival of Imperia, he was ranked 51,366th in the world. So when he began to destroy his competition, ...

If you’ve ever played chess or even checkers, you’ve probably thought about making a board that lets a computer play you without having to enter your moves and look at the board on a screen. [Greg06] ...

ChatGPT volunteered to play a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 to a game of chess and came to regret it after the eight-bit chess engine from the age of Disco Fever and the introduction of the Force did better ...

The first major conquest of artificial intelligence was chess. The game has a dizzying number of possible combinations, but it was relatively tractable because it was structured by a set of clear ...

Ken Regan could be called a chess detective. NPR's Scott Simon talks to the computer scientist and chess master whose algorithm reveals whether players are cheating at the game. Ken Regan is a kind of ...