A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest player in history. However, it cannot replace him. These ...

Elite chess players are abandoning engine-approved strategies in favor of wild, hard-to-predict moves designed to break through a rising tide of drawn games. Artificial intelligence has sharpened ...

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 ...

How to play the 2,500-year-old game.