A new chess-based benchmark, ChessArena, has revealed that large language models (LLMs) still struggle with genuine strategic reasoning, with none surpassing human amateur level and some losing to ...

A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

It’s Saturday in St. Paul, and 250 or so of the state’s best scholastic chess players — grades kindergarten through high school — are playing in the ballroom at St. Catherine University. 250 kids. 125 ...

“Dare to Know: Chess in the Age of Reason” tells the story of how chess, during the 18th-century Enlightenment, became a game played by all people, not just kings and clergy. “The Enlightenment ...

Computer chess engines surpassed the world’s best human players in the 1990s. They can calculate millions of moves per second, allowing them to quickly make the best decision on the board. So why ...

Two people hunched over a black and white checkered board, deliberating what moves they will make, how their opponent might counter and how they might counter that counter, with barely a flicker of ...