Have a good mind for computational chess problem-solving? Want to earn $1 million? Then the University of St. Andrews and Clay Mathematics Institute sure have the competition for you.

A year earlier, on Dec. 5, 2017, the team had stunned the chess world with its announcement of AlphaZero, a machine-learning algorithm that had mastered not only chess but shogi, or Japanese chess ...

The team tested the new algorithms on comments from 8,000 chess videos and found that while only one percent of comments were flagged as hate speech, 80 percent of those were false positives ...

In addition, certain heuristics and other algorithms will dead-end the search early, allowing the computer to evaluate promising moves in more depth for a given amount of time.

Ken Regan could be called a chess detective. NPR's Scott Simon talks to the computer scientist and chess master whose algorithm reveals whether players are cheating at the game.

The algorithms that have worked on games like chess and Go do their planning using a tree-based approach, in which they simply look ahead to all the branches that stem from different actions in ...

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

ChatGPT volunteered to play a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 to a game of chess and came to regret it after the eight-bit chess engine from the age of Disco Fever and the introduction of the Force did ...

For the blind players in “Algorithms,” chess is not just a mental game but a tactile one. Sociologist Ian McDonald’s first feature-length documentary profiles three Indian teen boys ...

The grandmasters who led the U.S. chess team to fifth place in the World Chess Olympiad drew on years of experience, hours of preparation and a super computer half a world away from Istanbul.