Computer chess engines surpassed the world’s best human players in the 1990s. They can calculate millions of moves per second, allowing them to quickly make the best decision on the board. So why ...

The first time a computer beat a human chess master happened in 1997 when IBM Deep Blue defeated champion, Gary Kasparov. AI systems have advanced in their ability to play chess to the point where no ...

In a study pitting multiple AI models against the most powerful chess engine, it was found that some models would rewrite the opponent's system in an attempt to force a win when they were in danger of ...

Online chess has zoomed in popularity but cheating is easy and rampant in the format. Even as thousands of player accounts have been blocked and titles revoked for foul play, a large number of ...

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 ...

Rybka, the best chess-playing computer program in the world and the winner of the last four World Computer Chess Championships (WCCC), has been disqualified and banned for the plagiarizing of two ...

Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15 years. It’s ...

For a few days, chess fans could be forgiven for wondering if the end of the game was in sight. At the World Chess Championships in Dubai last week, reigning champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway and ...

Okay, sorry for the weird question. But, I play a little chess, and one of the things that vaguely annoys me is that chess engines are kinda slow. Suppose I want to analyze a position to a certain ...

It was a war of titans you likely never heard about. One year ago, two of the world’s strongest and most radically different chess engines fought a pitched, 100-game battle to decide the future of ...