If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play.

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

The match draws inspiration from the historic Garry Kasparov match against 50,000 participants in 1999 and another match in ...

Samay Raina, a standup comedian and chess enthusiast, has a bot on Chess.com that faced backlash. Users have criticised it.

An curved arrow pointing right. A co-lead at Google's Big Picture data visualization group has created an online version of chess called the Thinking Machine 6, which lets you play against a ...

Google says its AlphaGo Zero artificial intelligence program has triumphed at chess against world-leading specialist software within hours of teaching itself the game from scratch. The firm's ...