It's been 16 years since Deep Blue first beat Gary Kasparov at chess representing a major breakthrough in terms of the ability of computers to surpass to outperform humans at certain tasks. But now ...

Chess is among the oldest and most venerated games of strategy, one with all the tension and drama of traditional spectator sports and the emerging e-sports market. But it's difficult to fully ...

Position No. 5642: Black to play and win. From the game Ivakhin - Gabdrakhmanov, Tomsk 2001. Solution to Position No. 5641: White wins with 1 Rd4, setting up 2 Rg5 mate. Viswanathan Anand, the world’s ...

Having analyzed advanced chess so thoroughly in the last few columns, it is time to draw some conclusions about its future. Will it be widely adopted? Will people really want to play it? Will we ever ...

The flurry of man-versus-machine matches that have taken place over the last few years makes it easy to paint the scenario of computers and humans as sworn enemies who will continue to fight for ...

Fritz 9 is the latest version of the superpowered chess engine that was able to defeat Garry Kasparov, one of the world's best players. If that sounds like a challenge you're up to then Fritz 9 won't ...