The weight of the world title can break even the strongest of players. For 19-year-old D. Gukesh, the pressure recently ...

Gukesh Dommaraju paused in the middle of the Prague Masters to apologise to fans, the moment felt unusually raw and e.

Magnus Carlsen doesn't just play differently; he thinks differently. His interviews reveal a man who prioritizes "the feel" ...

Netherlands researchers used AI to decipher an ancient blocking game that had baffled scientists for years. GamePixel - stock.adobe.com It gamed the system. Here’s yet more proof that AI is playing 3D ...

Starting this week, Perplexity subscribers will have a new agentic tool at their disposal. Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.” More ...

When most people think of early video games, they likely picture the 1980s, when plenty of popular games were released. Still, games got their start in 1958, and between then and 1979, plenty of ...

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue computer defeated chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 37 moves. The victory marked a turning point for humans and machines. On February 10, 1996, the then chess world ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World chess champion Garry Kasparov plays against IBM's Deep Blue computer at the Association for Computing Chess Challenge on ...

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...

In recent years, online chess competitors have relied more and more on computer engines to help them plan moves. "It is increasingly difficult for strong players to find wins, even against a ...

She was raised as part of a prodigy-breeding psychological experiment, took on the chess patriarchy and beat her idol Garry Kasparov. So why isn’t there more depth to this documentary? Judit Polgár ...