Faced with a relentless trash-talker across the chessboard, I decided to answer back the best way possible—by crushing him in the game. Watch the intense moves, sharp tactics, and satisfying checkmate ...

A 12-year-old chess prodigy, Sergey Sklokin, stunned the chess world by defeating reigning world champion D. Gukesh at the FIDE World Blitz Championship 2025. Despite a significant rating difference, ...

Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...

Chess computers have been around for a long time. Now come the chess robots, at least if it's up to the wishes of the AI company SenseTime from Hong Kong. Its SenseRobot devices face the player at ...

Remember the date. Because February 16, 2011, may likely go down in history as the day that human intelligence was surpassed -- or at least matched -- by the intelligence of computers and software ...

In 1986, the London-born Professor Hinton, who will deliver a talk at the Hobart Town Hall on January 7, helped develop the method of backpropagation, which enables neural networks to learn from their ...