COMPUTER CHESS programs, including the mighty Deep Blue, do not address all the complex problems involved in developing artificial intelligence. Things like visual recognition, navigation and learning ...

Don’t kid yourself: Thinking is hard. You can see this in grandmaster chess players, whose heart rates triple to cantering under their shirts. What separates champion Magnus Carlsen is his lethal ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a lot of people’s interests online, whether that’s playing Dungeons & Dragons over Zoom or taking virtual workout classes. But at least one of these interests, online ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Chess can be sexy. Anya Taylor-Joy in the hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit taught me that. Chess can also be evil and stupid. A viral (and ...

Have you ever played chess? It is easy to learn but difficult to master. That hasn't stopped some students as young as second grade from checking out the game. "It's fun. Chess is fun. And the kids ...

And so, we begin a discussion of outside-the-box competitions with the aim of categorizing each one: Real sport or just a weird activity? In our first review, we will look at a competition that ...