Have a good mind for computational problem-solving? Fancy netting a cool $1 million for your efforts? Then the University of St. Andrews and the Clay Mathematics Institute sure have the competition ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently published a study seeking to understand why a YouTube chess channel with over one million subscribers had a live interview pulled for "harmful and ...

AI programs usually master either information-perfect games like chess or information-imperfect games like poker, but "Student of Games" is a general algorithm that can master both types. When you ...

Ken Regan could be called a chess detective. NPR's Scott Simon talks to the computer scientist and chess master whose algorithm reveals whether players are cheating at the game. Ken Regan is a kind of ...

It’s​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ the nature of being a long-established game and having this tradition associated with it literally ...

The first major conquest of artificial intelligence was chess. The game has a dizzying number of possible combinations, but it was relatively tractable because it was structured by a set of clear ...

For the blind players in “Algorithms,” chess is not just a mental game but a tactile one. Sociologist Ian McDonald’s first feature-length documentary profiles three Indian teen boys competing in blind ...

When mediocre chess player Arcangelo Ricciardi entered Italy’s prestigious International Chess Festival of Imperia, he was ranked 51,366th in the world. So when he began to destroy his competition, ...

ChatGPT volunteered to play a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 to a game of chess and came to regret it after the eight-bit chess engine from the age of Disco Fever and the introduction of the Force did better ...