Garry Kasparov has a good case for being the best chess player in history, and not just because he's the last world champion to have reigned before the machines took over.

The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess ...

By the early 1960s, four MIT students began working on a chess computer that, by the time they graduated, could beat amateur players. It very consciously adopted the alpha beta heuristic approach.

While it's something of a fool's game to compare players across different eras, the current Chess world champion Magnus Carlsen has a good case for being the greatest player to ever live.

Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15 years ...

Many chess experts have adopted the new engines’ more aggressive style, and the algorithms have popularized numerous tactics that human players had previously underestimated.

A game from the Komodo-Stockfish match in the recent Thoresen Chess Engines Competition shows that computers can play interesting games.

Computer-powered Go and chess can be daunting for some novice players. You'll get the most out of your early games by playing with someone who can talk you through how each piece can move.

Computer v. Chess-Player Can a machine be made to think creatively? One reply is: First, can a machine be made to play a good game of chess?

Computer Chess review. At Sundance 2013, Matt reviews Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess starring Patrick Riester, Myles Paige, and James Curry.