The weight of the world title can break even the strongest of players. For 19-year-old D. Gukesh, the pressure recently reached a visible breaking point.

Gukesh Dommaraju paused in the middle of the Prague Masters to apologise to fans, the moment felt unusually raw and e.

There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around to their new ...

AI doomsters believe that AI will quickly become better at “everything.” That may not be true, but what if it is? What does that mean most immediately for the arts, where AI slop is already permeating ...

Queen for a reason. Nona Gaprindashvili, the fifth women’s world champion, won the title in 1962 and held it for 16 years. She made history in 1978 by becoming the first woman to earn the Chess ...

Jesse Panuccio, arguing for the programmers, told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that his clients aren’t required to show under the statute that their original code and AI software ...

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 Britain. Many such truces have held the title ...

In 1996, a computer -- IBM's Deep Blue -- won a game against world champion chess player Garry Kasparov. But Kasparov won ...

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2026 with 324 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus.

Local chess players enjoyed the unique opportunity of matching wits against a national master who came to Rice Lake. He spent some time discussing strategy before playing 20 people simultaneously in a ...

Super Micro Computer (SMCI 0.80%), high-performance server and storage solutions maker, closed Wednesday at $33.76, up 13.78% as investors responded to a blowout fiscal Q2 driven by AI infrastructure ...

On South Carolina’s second inbound of the game, Texas head coach Vic Schaefer put his Longhorns in the full-court press for the first time. Joyce Edwards tried to throw it deep to Ta’Niya Latson, and ...