Online Chess Kingdoms is predictably unsuccessful in its attempts to enhance the timeless classic, but thankfully it does let you play classic chess online or off. The game of chess dates back to ...

Yet another world champion has been brought low for suspected use of a banned performance-enhancing substance. Rybka, the chess-playing computer program that won the past four World Computer Chess ...

Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a 29-year-old standard-bearer in the world of competitive speed chess that flourished in the COVID-19 pandemic, died over the weekend and leaves behind a legacy as one of the greats ...

In 2003, two artists and designers unveiled "Thinking Machine," a chess computer with a twist. It would telegraph its moves in full view of the player and show how it was processing every possibility.

Maybe it has to do with having programmed a computer in high school in the first half of the seventies—a computer the size of a double-wide fridge and covered with blinking lights. Our after-school ...

This undated photo released by Charlotte Chess Center shows Daniel Naroditsky playing chess at the computer. (Kelly Centrelli/Charlotte Chess Center via AP) This undated photo released by Charlotte ...