Not too long ago, chess-playing computers—the supervillain of many a human grandmaster—were as intimidating physically as they were virtually: bulky, sturdy, sleek, jet-black monoliths in miniature, ...

For years, the game of chess has been seen as a litmus test for how far AI can go against the human intellect. When IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat reigning Chess world champion Garry Kasparov in ...

She also happens to be a mean cat. Mittens, or technically the chess bot known as Mittens, might look cute. Her listed chess rating of a single point seems innocuous. But her play over the past few ...

Since the supercomputer won the chess world champion for the first time in 1997, there have been many examples of AI defeating humans in competitive games. A new bot in the chess world named 'Mitten' ...

When discussing chess’s big surge in popularity in 2020, we usually point to the pandemic and The Queen’s Gambit, while perhaps PogChamps deserves a place in the same sentence. What do the numbers say ...