The history of modern AI is closely associated with chess. But the ancient game has so far been a stumbling block for the ...

Nicholas Carlini wrote a 2-ply minimax chess engine with 84,688 regular expressions. It's not a massive mangled ...

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

Avoiding digital censorship can sometimes feel like a game of whack-a-mole, with the same success rate, especially when the ...

It all started with Dota Auto Chess, a custom game mode for Dota 2 which then spun off to do its own thing, simply called Auto Chess. Valve took notice, and decided to create the ill-fated Dota ...

Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Online chess has exploded in popularity since the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, but many people prefer to play on a ...