This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and shogi -- in just a few hours, a new study reports.

How one computer taught itself to be a chess ‘international master’ in 72 hours A new computer program called Giraffe plays chess with help from artificial intelligence.

James Somers on AlphaZero, an artificial-intelligence program animated by an algorithm so powerful that you could give it the rules of humanity’s richest and most studied games and, later that ...

Spurred by a daughter’s question, a father gets serious about chess and dares to focus on a long-ignored love of hard science.

Deep Blue’s famous victory was nearly 20 years ago — how did you approach the challenge of solving chess and beating Kasparov back then? We had actually started work on a chess program while ...

A school in the North Bay has become the only one in the country that has received international recognition for its chess program and how its teaching the game to a new generation.