How one computer taught itself to be a chess ‘international master’ in 72 hours A new computer program called Giraffe plays chess with help from artificial intelligence.

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.

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.

Marley Kaplan, the group’s executive director, runs the program, which teaches kids from 50 poor city schools how to play chess.

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 ...