Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis's AI journey had an unexpected start: his early mastery of chess. Years before Hassabis ...

Demis Hassabis, a childhood chess prodigy, said his experience with the game afforded him his first brush with AI. He was ...

A spectator would approach and sit opposite the automaton to play a game of Chess. The automaton would then come to life, picking up the pieces and making moves. To add further surprise to that ...

Nicole Carpenter is a senior reporter specializing in investigative features about labor issues in the game industry, as well as the business and culture of games. Otherwise, the Fields of Mistria ...

Join us for the opening reception of Paws and Pawns: Exploring Animal Chess Sets, on Thursday, January 30, 5–8 p.m., with complimentary admission, valet, and refreshments. Paws and Pawns: Exploring ...

If you are taking your first steps in chess, you will need a book for beginners. Time-tested classics are Emanuel Lasker’s “How to play Chess” and Ilya Maizelis’s “Chess”. Lots of letters?

India's Pranav Venkatesh clinched the World Junior Chess Championship (Under-20 ... suffice for Venkatesh to secure the championship. Playing with black pieces, Levrencic chose the Sicilian ...

To learn more, the team from Palisade Research tasked OpenAI’s o1-preview model, DeepSeek R1, and multiple other similar programs with playing games of chess against Stockfish, one of the world ...

For decades I've thought about how a simple behavior such as stretching and crouching on the forelimbs could become a play invitation signal in dogs and other animals. Many people also have asked ...

Tanisha started playing chess when she was four-and-a-half years old at a Montessori academy. One day, she came from the school and said: "Daddy, can I play with the white and black pieces in school?" ...

And Monday, Black Tabby Games (also the studio behind Slay the Princess) released a massive 70,000-word update, fleshing out the existing chapters of the game to ... the Talk to Animals trait ...