Bottom Line: This chessboard features a Maia AI engine for advanced play, plus the ability to play online against real people. Pros: It features LED lights to show you suggested moves. The board ...

Discover how computers play chess, from the Mechanical Turk to advanced chess engines and their strategies against human opponents.

I have spent the last six weeks playing the Chessnut Evo every day. In that time, my Chess.com rating has crept from 380 to 470, my fiancée Jemma has played ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Online chess has exploded in popularity since the Netflix ...

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

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I have spent the last seven weeks playing the GoChess Wizard Lite. In that time, I have introduced three friends to chess, watched my Chess.com rating grind from 380 to ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...