It’s been almost 20 years since IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat the reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, for the first time under standard tournament rules. Since then, chess-playing ...

The world chess governing body Fide has elevated Malawi to developmental level three, a status Chess Association of Malawi ...

Ethan Pang, the nine-year-old London schoolboy who has already set several age records and is the world’s top under-10 player, reached a new peak late last month. The youngster shared first place with ...

In brief: AI has been kicking our collective butt in just about every classic board game imaginable for many years now. That's no surprise, though – when you tell an AI to learn from the best with no ...