A microcontroller-based AI called "Max the Dog" plays chess on Lichess against challengers. The main feature is an LED array showing Dog's thought process and errors. The source code is available to ...

Playing with online chess bots is fun. To some people playing online chess may not sound ‘real’, but the truth is, it is very real and sometimes more competitive than playing chess with ‘real’ people.

For years, the game of chess has been seen as a litmus test for how far AI can go against the human intellect. When IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat reigning Chess world champion Garry Kasparov in ...

Just like any retiree, former Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto is spending his days perfecting his hobbies − specifically chess. And now you can play against him. On Monday, Chess.com ...

Since the supercomputer won the chess world champion for the first time in 1997, there have been many examples of AI defeating humans in competitive games. A new bot in the chess world named 'Mitten' ...

After conquering the game of Go, the AI-driven AlphaGo computer program is showing that it can easily dominate the chess world, too. The latest iteration of AlphaGo bested a leading computer chess ...

Not too long ago, chess-playing computers—the supervillain of many a human grandmaster—were as intimidating physically as they were virtually: bulky, sturdy, sleek, jet-black monoliths in miniature, ...

Leading chess site Chess.com has claimed a popular new AI bot is partly to blame for recent outages and issues with its servers. Mittens, powered by an artificial intelligence chess algorithm and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...