Making a baby through just kissing? Having bushes catch on spontaneous fire? Drink eggplant juice all day long? I’m not ...

C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent ...

Magnus Carlsen, a 34-year-old Norwegian, is among the greatest chess players of all time.

Now, Barthelmey has taken things one step further by publishing a new paper in the journal Physical Review E that treats ...

This smart chess board blends the tactile joy of in-person play with the global reach of online opponents.

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International Master Levy Rozman gathered some unlikely opponents for a chess exhibition this week: artificial intelligence chatbots that, despite their prowess at conversation and writing complex ...

They visited game parks, were waited on by butlers ... the entity he would use to incubate the Hydra chess computer. He also started a robotics company that produced a humanoid robot, REEM ...

While cheating in over-the-board matches is much rarer and harder to pull off than in online games ... mirroring it on the computer and feeding it through the chess engine Stockfish before ...

He was a child chess prodigy before teaching himself to code. At 17, he helped to create a video game that sold millions. After graduating with top honours in computer science from the University ...

Now, a more recent experiment shows that ChatGPT o1 decided to hack a chess game on its own, without being explicitly told to do so, just to beat an AI opponent that was a stronger player.

Zoë Hannah is the games editor at Polygon ... You’ll sit idle for a few moments at your computer, determining whether to chase a suspected thief or to simply pickpocket them instead.