From Deep Blue to modern AI, how chess exposed the shift from brute-force machines to learning systems, and why it matters AI ...

Android, it's your move. Language-learning app Duolingo announced Tuesday that it is launching its chess instruction to Android phones, three months after introducing the game to iOS devices. The ...

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.

How many people does it take to defeat a chess grandmaster at their own game? Turns out, more than 143,000. Magnus Carlsen's match against the world ended in a draw Monday. The match — which featured ...

Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between Garry ...

Here's a statistical challenge worthy of a grandmaster: How do you create an accurate ranking system when the best players ...