When one former world chess champion implied that another was cheating on the online platform Chess.com, a statistician was ...

Ever since he beat the greatest chess player who ever lived, Hans Niemann has been called a cheat. The 19-year-old’s surprising victory over Magnus Carlsen in St. Louis on September 4 led to ...

The watershed moment in computerized chess came in 1997 when the world champion, Garry Kasparov, was defeated by a computer called Deep Blue. And the computers of today are dramatically better still.

In the decades since IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, artificial intelligence has transformed the way humans play the game, and not always for the ...

Computer chess engines surpassed the world’s best human players in the 1990s. They can calculate millions of moves per second, allowing them to quickly make the best decision on the board. So why ...

A laptop computer displays Chetan Cherukuri’s website, “Courtyard Chess Club.” Chetan, 16, developed the website to promote chess and tutor young people on how to play the game.