Chess may be the Game of Kings, but royalty could give way to machinery in the years to come. A recent study has found that artificial intelligence, when pitted in a tight game of chess, often resorts ...

Elite chess players are abandoning engine-approved strategies in favor of wild, hard-to-predict moves designed to break through a rising tide of drawn games. Artificial intelligence has sharpened ...

A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest ...

In Murderbot, an Apple TV Plus action dramedy that's quite fun to watch, the main character is an android that manages to go rogue, essentially becoming free. That gives the advanced AI inside the ...

What happens if more domains of knowledge have superhuman performance from AI? The Elo (chess ranking estimate) of the best chess programs is about 3700 which is about 900 points beyond the 2881 ...

Palisade Research recently detailed a ChatGPT experiment in which a reasoning model was told to play chess against a more powerful opponent and win. Rather than attempt to beat the stronger opponent, ...

When Magnus Carlsen started playing chess at the age of eight, he grew up in “a hybrid generation,” mainly playing on the board, he tells Euronews Next in an interview. Fast forward 25 years and the ...

Rybka, the best chess-playing computer program in the world and the winner of the last four World Computer Chess Championships (WCCC), has been disqualified and banned for the plagiarizing of two ...

Almost a year ago exactly, DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence (AI) division owned by Google parent company Alphabet, made headlines with preprint research ("Mastering Chess and Shogi by ...