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 ...

Chess, the age-old strategy game, continues to inspire advancements in artificial intelligence. Google, known for its AI breakthroughs like AlphaZero, has used chess as a proving ground for ...

The world’s top performing artificial intelligence models, including OpenAI’s o3 and 04-mini, Google LLC’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4, and xAI Corp.’s Grok 4 are ...

Google is the Title Sponsor of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2024 and has launched an exhibit on Google Arts & Culture for you to explore, and more. Paul Hill Neowin @ziks_99 · Nov 25, 2024 01:22 ...

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow designed a custom-made chess set for Google Chrome's "Unfinished Projects" exhibit in New York City.

Google Messages seems to be working on a new games feature with titles including Chess, Pool, Basketball, Darts, and Crazy 8s ...

Google Messages may add built-in games: code lists Chess, Pool, Darts and six more under the codename Midnight. No launch date has been confirmed yet.

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Chess engines can beat grandmasters—but they can’t agree on a single infallible strategy. And, instead of ruining the game, artificial intelligence is now uncovering new ways of playing.