Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

In late November, the latest official world chess championship match was staged in a large hall in the Olympic city of Sochi, Russia. The games were broadcast on the Internet with live commentary and ...

AI After conquering ChatGPT, Atari 2600 Video Chess destroys Microsoft Copilot: 'The vintage silicon mastermind bested me fair and square' AI Google's Gemini AI backed out of a chess match against a ...

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 ...

The World Chess Championship was already a week old when something stunning happened in Game 6: after nearly eight hours of play last Friday, someone actually won. It was the first time in five years ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Like many, I have been watching the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, and it got me to ...

It was as if a bottom seed had knocked out the top team in March Madness: At the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament in St. Louis earlier this month, an upstart American teenager named Hans Niemann ...

"I got checkmated in 34 moves." Levy Rozman a.k.a. GothamChess plays chess against Stockfish 16, the strongest chess computer in the world, and analyzes the way it thinks in order to apply it to his ...

I have been playing a little bit of chess on iPad recently (read GESC chess tournament announcement, stickied at the top - and sign up) and I haven't played chess in a long time. My chess senses are ...