‘Jeopardy!’: Meet Greg Shahade, Polyamorous Chess Master & Jamie Ding Opponent

Jamie Ding has faced off against comic book writers, A The Chase competitor, attorneys, and more, but he hasn’t faced off ...
The New Yorker

After Magnus Carlsen, Chess Has Entered a New Age

A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh ...

Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on the long game of AI

A decade ago, Hassabis's lifelong enduring love of play and AI led to AlphaGo beating the world's deepest board game. The ...

The Gamblers Behind One of the Weirdest Cheating Mysteries in Chess Have Been Unmasked

In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician ...

I’m a Chess Champion. Here’s Why I Play Chess Against ChatGPT

And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not ...

How DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis ushered in the dizzying rise of AI superintelligence

It was March 2016, and more than 200 million people around the world were watching a battle 2,500 years in the making. At the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, Lee Sedol — one of the greatest players of Go ...
The Baylor Lariat

How Sison Tacos uses chess to attract customers

Normally, when you hear chess club, you think of a meetup at the library, a school club or even the park. At Sison Tacos, located at 601 Franklin Ave., customers can experience a night of chess for ...
9to5Mac

Perplexity’s Personal Computer is a cloud-based AI agent running on Mac mini

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...
The Boston Globe

‘More than just a game’: Free chess classes aim to reduce youth violence in Boston

The young chess player reached instinctively toward his threatened king, scanning the board for safe haven — until his instructor stepped in with a question. “If you move your king out of check, what ...
9to5Mac

Computer History Museum to celebrate Apple’s 50th anniversary with special programming

With Apple’s 50th anniversary fast approaching, the Computer History Museum is planning a series of programs and a temporary exhibit to celebrate the company’s history. Here are the details. The ...
UPI

On This Day: IBM's Deep Blue computer beats Kasparov in chess

Feb. 10 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War between Britain and Spain and also the French and Indian War, with France ceding Quebec to Great ...
HUB

Researchers watched students' brains as they learned to program

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the artificial intelligence revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this essential skill. To help answer that question, Johns ...