It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess. A standard smartphone can now play the kind of moves that make a grandmaster’s head spin. But one artificial ...

Google’s artificial intelligence sibling DeepMind repurposes Go-playing AI to conquer chess and shogi without aid of human knowledge AlphaZero, the game-playing AI created by Google sibling DeepMind, ...

A few weeks ago, a group of researchers from Google’s artificial-intelligence subsidiary, DeepMind, published a paper in the journal Science that described an A.I. for playing games. While their ...

Chess enthusiasts watch World Chess champion Garry Kasparov on a television monitor as he holds his head in his hands at the start of the sixth and final match 11 May against IBM\'s Deep Blue computer ...

How do you market a new PC chess program? Chess is chess, and today’s programs are all powerful enough to defeat anyone below the level of grandmaster, so the only means by which a publisher can ...

In a day and age when major game releases can clog up 65 gigabytes of hard drive space or more, it’s nice to know that classic game design doesn’t require nearly ...

A school in the North Bay has become the only one in the country that has received international recognition for its chess program and how its teaching the game to a new generation. Joshua Gonzalez ...