Checkmate: OpenAI's o3 swept Musk's Grok 4 in an AI chess showdown.

My progression mirrors how we taught our computers to play chess. The earliest programs, gawkish code running on ungainly mainframes, were woodpushers, capable of playing chess technically but not ...

While it's something of a fool's game to compare players across different eras, the current Chess world champion Magnus Carlsen has a good case for being the greatest player to ever live.

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 ...

Garry Kasparov has a good case for being the best chess player in history, and not just because he's the last world champion to have reigned before the machines took over.

The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess ...

In 1949, Claude Shannon, one of A.I.’s founding figures, laid out his explanation for why making a computer play chess would be a worthy endeavor.