Oliver Roeder is a journalist, author and games player. He is a former senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, where he covered the World Chess Championship and other gaming pursuits. The following is ...

Computers have raced toward the future for decades, starting as manual punchcards and now turning the tides on how all of humanity operates. Artificial intelligence is just one field in computing, ...

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

In the decades since IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, artificial intelligence has transformed the way humans play the game, and not always for the ...

A cheating scandal rocking the chess world over the past month has sparked debate about the role of artificial intelligence in high-level competition. Last month, five-time world chess champion Magnus ...

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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, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Like many, I have been watching the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, and it got me to ...