My own son began asking to learn how to play chess around Brownscombe’s optimal age of seven or eight. But since I myself didn’t know how to play, I avoided the request for a while.

DeepMind's researchers are letting AlphaZero play with different rules to find out how to improve the game.

The language-learning app recently added a feature that teaches you how to play chess. I tried it, and now I’m hooked on ...

Chess Grandmaster Tania Sachdev is your guide to the rules and tricks of the game. How does a tricky knight move? How do you protect your queen? Do it better than your opponent and become a winner.

Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In ...

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Chess has always had followers. But since The Queen’s Gambit attracted huge viewing figures on Netflix millions more people have felt inspired to take up the game for the first time.

In a preprint paper, researchers at Alphabet's DeepMind detail MuZero, an algorithm that effectively teaches itself how to play Atari and board games.