This smart chess set plays just like a person—you just have to move the computer's pieces for it ...

Chess player? Having trouble finding opponents? If chess apps and websites don't cut it for you, Square Off is a smart chess board that lets you interact with a physical board, while connecting ...

If you’ve ever played chess or even checkers, you’ve probably thought about making a board that lets a computer play you without having to enter your moves and look at the board on a screen ...

While you can always download a chess app and play against a computer bot, it's nowhere near as fun as having an actual person as an opponent.

Chess computers fail at Penrose’s chess puzzle because they have a database of end-games to choose from. This board is not, Tagg and Penrose believe, in the computer’s playbook.

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

Chess is often seen as the ultimate mental challenge: 32 pieces on an 8-by-8 board, and nearly limitless possible moves. There are chess engines that calculate millions of moves per second, but ...

With the Chess Challenger and a standard board, the player can face off in an epic battle of wits against the computer without risk of developing carpal tunnel.

He says that the idea of having a computer play a board game dates back to 1950, and that by the 1990s, the machines were besting humans at checkers and chess.

When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk." In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and ...