The Week in Chess 1666 of 12th October 2026 by Mark Crowther. 42 stories and 8734 games. Links down the right hand margin for games in PGN or Chessbase format or on the The Week in Chess Download page ...

Kenya’s Department for Correctional Services has introduced chess across the country’s prisons since 2024, in one of the most ...

In 2016, AlphaGo beat Go master Lee Sedol. Poker soon followed, as AI systems learned not only to calculate odds but also to ...

Deep Blue took down Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go in 2016, and poker bots have been beating ...

Chess engines can beat grandmasters—but they can’t agree on a single infallible strategy. And, instead of ruining the game, artificial intelligence is now uncovering new ways of playing.

A chess club that began with one person and a single board in a Center City park has spent five years building something larger. As WHYY reported, the Rittenhouse Chess Club now draws players to ...

When I was a kid in Iran, much of my time was spent studying. Whatever free time I had, I spent it reading or playing games. Tag, hide-and-seek, Lego, soccer, card games—you name it, we played it.

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Elon Musk is looking for a checkmate in his latest online feud. It began on Thursday, when the billionaire wrote that ...

"The actual number of moves that are not utterly stupid in chess is tiny and chess will be fully solved one day," Elon Musk tweeted on his own website, X, on Sep. 3. The bold prediction got the ...

Elon Musk has clashed with Chess.com after claiming artificial intelligence will eventually solve chess, prompting the site to hit back with some astronomical numbers. The debate began when Musk ...

You’d never die wondering what a site called Chess.com has to offer. The site claims over 275m members—including your forlorn, terribly-ranked correspondent—and is widely considered the internet’s ...

Chess.com’s Albert Cheng says AI helped get Gambit off the ground with just a two-person team. Chess.com’s Albert Cheng says AI helped get Gambit off the ground with just a two-person team. is a news ...