The Picochess chess program already has a long and storied history behind it—something you should be aware of if you’re looking to download and use it to play chess with on Raspberry Pi. After years ...

The movers and shakers at Novag have wasted little time in adding another direct drill to the T-ForcePlus portfolio, just six months after being rescued from a financial precipice by newly formed ...

Chess was first invented in India around the 6th century AD. The early version of this game was called Chaturanga, a Sanskrit word that means “four divisions of the army”. These divisions stood for ...

Chess.com has disclosed a data breach after threat actors gained unauthorized access to a third-party file transfer application used by the platform. The incident occurred in June 2025, with the ...

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Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind. As a child, Hassabis became a chess champion, competing in international tournaments. Hassabis credits chess with leading to an interest in programming ...

In 1997, in New York, humans suffered an enormous blow to their chess ego when Deep Blue, a chess computer, outplayed Garry Kaspa-rov, a reigning world champion. The age of artificial intelligence (AI ...

At the corner of Moscow’s Mayakovsky Square and Gorki Street stands the cavernous Chaikovsky Hall. Its stage is a blaze of light so that the eyes of the chess world can concentrate on the battle being ...

In 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost for the first time in history to a computer, Deep Blue. Twenty-seven years later, what has the human defeat against the machine taught us, and can ...

It’s no secret that computers can smoke humans at chess. And now, as if to further mock our mere organic forms, scientists say they’ve created a computer made out of DNA that can play the board game — ...

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training ...