AI beating humans at Shogi and Go.Nowadays, few people are surprised by this.However, until recently, this was a domain considered 'impossible'.Both Shogi and Go are tests of human wisdom with long ...

Chess engines can beat grandmasters—but they can’t agree on a single infallible strategy. And, instead of ruining the game, artificial intelligence is now uncovering new ways of playing.

For years, the game of chess has been seen as a litmus test for how far AI can go against the human intellect. When IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat reigning Chess world champion Garry Kasparov in ...

Anand Mahindra believes the growing sophistication of artificial intelligence has made the human element of chess more important, even as machines have decisively surpassed people at the game.

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 ...

In a groundbreaking development, Neuralink, the brain chip company founded by Elon Musk, has successfully enabled its first human patient to play chess online using only their thoughts. This ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

In the latest saga that is Neuralink’s first human outfitted with its brain-computer interface device, the company released a video of its 29-year-old participant successfully playing chess with just ...

Chess grandmasters move toward a less complex game faster than AI players, suggesting different approaches for balancing short- and long-term prospects. Game of trade-offs. Chess players need to ...