Yiming Zhang didn't grow up playing chess. Like many other people, the Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student discovered ...

AI Computer Defeated: In a highly publicized event demonstrating the cutting-edge in artificial intelligence at the time, Deep Blue won just two out of a series of six chess games against Kasparov.

The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess player.

Game 5 begins Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. Eastern. We’ll be covering the entire match here and on Twitter, and we, too, will strive for computer perfection, clinging to our centipawns.

The world of chess has been going through somewhat of an evolution in recent years, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down ...

ChessUp is a new chess computer complete with a built-in chess instructor, light indicators, touch sensors, Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity, companion application and Stockfish AI.

It was the first time in five years that a championship classical game—the format played under long time controls—didn’t end in a draw. The chess world could hardly believe what it was seeing.

That was the beginning of the chess computer club in Moscow. I brought 53 Ataris [home] as payment for my contract [laughs] And that's how we started first computer club in the Soviet Union.

PC Gamer's previously spoken to Kasparov about the game of kings in the computer age (he was a key consultant on The Queen's Gambit), though even he sneaks in the odd round or two of Hearthstone.