McKinney chess grandmaster Andy Woodward, 16, returns to St. Louis to defend his U.S. Junior Championship title after an undefeated run last year.

Math nerds are Silicon Valley’s latest hot commodity pulling down entry-level pay of half a million dollars - Competition ...

For years, the game of chess has been seen as a litmus test for how far AI can go against the human intellect. When IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat reigning Chess world champion Garry Kasparov in ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a standard-bearer in the world of competitive chess that flourished in the COVID-19 pandemic, died Monday at the age of 29, leaving behind a legacy as one of the greats of the game ...

The world's first female grandmaster was ready to deliver her regular Thursday-night lecture. Susan Polgar was perfumed, coiffed, made-up and dressed in a sleek black pantsuit, an elegant contrast to ...

Abstract: This paper demonstrates the use of genetic algorithms for evolving: 1) a grandmaster-level evaluation function, and 2) a search mechanism for a chess program, the parameter values of which ...

Flush with cash, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are vying to hire the same tiny pool of genius graduates.

Chess. It’s been around hundreds of years, and you either love it or hate it (or, alternatively, just don’t know how to play it). If you’re not a fan of the checkerboard game then we can safely agree ...

Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of the best-sellers "The Tipping Point," and "Blink." He's also a sports fan, and has plenty to say about how his latest book, ...

Discover how computers play chess, from the Mechanical Turk to advanced chess engines and their strategies against human ...

The World Chess Hall of Fame & Galleries (WCHOF) today announced the 2026 U.S. and World Chess Hall of Fame inductees. Members of both Halls of Fame are chosen for their impact on the sport and ...