Staring at the Mona Lisa provides a few minutes of enjoyment and contemplation, but were the famous portrait on the wall of your living room, you’d soon find yourself wishing she did more than just ...

Chess is undoubtedly a game of the mind. Sadly, some of the nuances are lost when you play on a computer screen. When a game is tactile, it carries a different gravity. Look at a poker player ...

AIs have defeated humans at even more computationally difficult games. This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and ...

A lot of computers can play chess. [Matthew Lui’s] Giraffe is a chess playing computer, but unlike other common chess programs, Giraffe taught itself to play. It apparently learned pretty well, too, ...

The deciding game Friday between chess legend Garry Kasparov and computer Deep Junior ended in a draw. The result meant that the six-game series pitting man against machine ended in a 3-3 deadlock.

Twenty-four years ago on Monday, a world chess champion came up against a force too great to overcome: a computer. Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a six-game match on February 10, 1996, against ...

After 11 often grueling games over the past 16 days, the World Chess Championship is right where it started — tied. There is one full-length game remaining. Magnus Carlsen of Norway, the world No. 1 ...

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died at the age of 29. He leaves behind a legacy as a standard-bearer in the world of ...

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 ...