Yes, Google’s self-teaching artificial intelligence software, AlphaZero, will probably trounce you at chess. But there’s far more to human smarts than a speedy checkmate. ByKatherine J. Wu Thursday, ...

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Demis Hassabis, a childhood chess prodigy, said his experience with the game afforded him his first brush with AI. He was "hooked" from then on.

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The first major conquest of artificial intelligence was chess. The game has a dizzying number of possible combinations, but it was relatively tractable because it was structured by a set of clear ...

AlphaGo, the much-praised artificial intelligence agent developed by Google DeepMind, has been enhanced so that it can play two more games in addition to the ancient Chinese board game Go. DeepMind ...

To Lyudmila Rudenko, chess started out as just a hobby — swimming was her first love and talent. » RELATED: Who is Octavia Butler? Google honors 'grand dame of science fiction' But the Lubny, Ukraine, ...

On 26 November 1844, two chess teams faced off while separated by 60 kilometers, as the Washington Chess Club played a team ...

Demis Hassabis was a child chess prodigy, achieving master status in his teens. In a lecture at the University of Cambridge, the Google Deepmind CEO said chess led him to his first experience with AI.

Chess pieces adorn Google's homepage today in honor of Lyudmila Rudenko, a celebrated chess player who set the stage for more women to succeed in the game. According to the World Chess Hall of Fame, ...