To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

Rybka, the best chess-playing computer program in the world and the winner of the last four World Computer Chess Championships (WCCC), has been disqualified and banned for the plagiarizing of two ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Chess is often seen as the ultimate mental challenge: 32 pieces on ...

It was a war of titans you likely never heard about. One year ago, two of the world’s strongest and most radically different chess engines fought a pitched, 100-game battle to decide the future of ...

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a ...

D Gukesh's unique approach to chess training, by largely avoiding engines, raises interesting questions about how chess engines can continue to challenge us Today, chess engines are an essential part ...

An update: I built a new box. 13900k, RTX 3080, 64GB of DDR5-4800. I can get right around 27 million nodes/second in Stockfish 15.1, which feels pretty damn insane. It's still bizarrely not that much ...