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

An open source chess server powered by volunteers and donations, it is completely free (and the server software is free as well, so you can run it on your own) and has no ads or trackers.

James Somers on AlphaZero, an artificial-intelligence program animated by an algorithm so powerful that you could give it the rules of humanity’s richest and most studied games and, later that ...

Spurred by a daughter’s question, a father gets serious about chess and dares to focus on a long-ignored love of hard science.

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.

This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and shogi -- in just a few hours, a new study reports.

Deep Blue’s famous victory was nearly 20 years ago — how did you approach the challenge of solving chess and beating Kasparov back then? We had actually started work on a chess program while ...