In chess circles, that name has long carried significant weight. Gary Kasparov became a world chess champion in 1985 and ...

"It made enough blunders to get laughed out of a third grade chess club," Citrix engineer Robert Jr. Caruso explained.

I'm an older individual, and I admit I get a secret feeling of satisfaction when I see a young whippersnapper get served ...

The chess board’s intelligent guts come courtesy of an old Fidelity Chessmaster 8 game, with additional LEDs and components added to detect where the human player has moved, and then indicate ...

There was a time, not long ago, when computers—mere assemblages of silicon and wire and plastic that can fly planes, drive cars, translate languages, and keep failing hearts beating—could ...

Carlsen and Karjakin — 25 and 26 years old, respectively — are arguably the first pair of world championship contenders who are very much of the computer chess era.

Blitz chess games aren’t official, but many players use them to hone their skills. A 57-year-old international master from Serbia accepted Sam’s invitation.

Once computers were reliably beating grandmasters, cheating-by-computer became a serious threat, Emil Sutovsky, the director general of the International Chess Federation, told me.

In the world chess championship match that ended Friday in India, Norway's Magnus Carlsen, the cool, charismatic 22-year-old challenger and the highest-rated player in chess history, defeated ...

A computer programmer creates a computer chess program that takes up only 487 bytes of data, breaking a 33-year-old record.

Before it ever played its first game, Giraffe “studied” 175 million chess positions generated this way, building its own understanding of the 1,500-year-old game.