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As a result, online chess sites, like Chess.com, have developed anti-cheating technology to detect when players are using outside computer software during games in an attempt to curb foul play.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.