Chess may be the Game of Kings, but royalty could give way to machinery in the years to come. A recent study has found that artificial intelligence, when pitted in a tight game of chess, often resorts ...

But last weekend, it lost a game of chess. Not to a human grandmaster or even to some other fancy AI. It lost to an Atari 2600 that first appeared in the 1970s and can only calculate one or two chess ...

A few months after demonstrating its dominance over the game of Go, DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI has trounced the world’s top-ranked chess engine—and it did so without any prior knowledge of the game and ...

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 ...

The Irish Chess Union is to hold a meeting of its executive committee today after gardaí were called to a top chess tournament following claims a 16-year-old boy was caught cheating. A row started ...