It was as if a bottom seed had knocked out the top team in March Madness: At the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament in St. Louis earlier this month, an upstart American teenager named Hans Niemann ...

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 ...

Ever since he beat the greatest chess player who ever lived, Hans Niemann has been called a cheat. The 19-year-old’s surprising victory over Magnus Carlsen in St. Louis on September 4 led to ...

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.

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. But a ...

While cheating at the game’s top level is rare, platforms and mathematicians alike work tirelessly to ensure the game’s integrity. By Emily Belz The mechanics of how chess players might cheat ...