Oliver Roeder is a journalist, author and games player. He is a former senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, where he covered the World Chess Championship and other gaming pursuits. The following is ...
If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, ...
We have covered many chess computers in the past, but we think this might just be the smallest. Enter the PIC Blitz: A tiny low-cost low-power computer that can play lightning chess. It’s based on a ...
The world’s greatest human chess player threw a tantrum and cried foul yesterday after being thrashed by a supercomputer. It took IBM’s Deep Blue just 19 moves to defeat world chess champion Garry ...
A new chess club in Merrill is helping players learn the ropes, and for some, the game is more than it appears.
As computers get better at chess, their games look more human. Their moves seem more connected to known strategic plans, and when they aren’t, the logic can still often be discerned by experts. But ...
A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.