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 ...

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' ...

Trending in 2023 is one of the world’s oldest games played on a 17-year-old website: Chess.com. The site, which lets people take lessons, solve puzzles, and match up against computers or other players ...

She also happens to be a mean cat. Mittens, or technically the chess bot known as Mittens, might look cute. Her listed chess rating of a single point seems innocuous. But her play over the past few ...

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