The robots are coming for your … chess game. Google’s AI, AlphaZero, developed a “superhuman performance” in chess in just four hours. Essentially, the AI absorbed humanity’s entire history of chess ...

Google's AlphaZero program, after teaching itself chess in a matter of hours, beat the world's greatest computerized chess player. Playing 100 matches against the former world champion chess program, ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google-owned DeepMind put out a new paper that outlines how the team took ...

The greatest chess matches are no longer played by mere mortals comprised of flesh, bone, and blood, but sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) schemes. Sitting at the top, at least for now, is ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Almost a year ago exactly, DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence ...

AlphaGo, the much-praised artificial intelligence agent developed by Google DeepMind, has been enhanced so that it can play two more games in addition to the ancient Chinese board game Go. DeepMind ...

The first major conquest of artificial intelligence was chess. The game has a dizzying number of possible combinations, but it was relatively tractable because it was structured by a set of clear ...

Chess has long had tradition hanging on its shoulders, but over the past couple of years, it’s become something different altogether—a meme generator, a TikTok sensation, and even home to a legendary ...

Chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by actress Anya Taylor-Joy, reads a chess pamphlet in Netflix's miniseries "The Queen Gambit." Netflix Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" has inspired a surge of interest ...

International chess champion Lyudmila Rudenko was born on July 27, 1904 in what is now Ukraine, which at the time was part of the Russian Empire. By the time she was 10, she had learned the game that ...