Computer chess engines surpassed the world’s best human players in the 1990s. They can calculate millions of moves per second, allowing them to quickly make the best decision on the board. So why ...

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. It’s ...

If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play. That ...

Stockfish 16 is now available for download. The developers behind the engine say that it's now 50 Elo points ahead of Stockfish 15 and can beat it in 12 times more games when they play together. The ...

The first time a computer beat a human chess master happened in 1997 when IBM Deep Blue defeated champion, Gary Kasparov. AI systems have advanced in their ability to play chess to the point where no ...