A lot of computers can play chess. [Matthew Lui’s] Giraffe is a chess playing computer, but unlike other common chess programs, Giraffe taught itself to play. It apparently learned pretty wel… ...

If you’ve ever played chess or even checkers, you’ve probably thought about making a board that lets a computer play you without having to enter your moves and look at the board on a screen ...

Chess is often seen as the ultimate mental challenge: 32 pieces on an 8-by-8 board, and nearly limitless possible moves. There are chess engines that calculate millions of moves per second, but ...

Carlsen was playing on a newly redesigned chess set by Pentagram partner Daniel Weil. Weil’s chess set takes the Victorian classic, the Staunton set, as a jumping-off point.

The random setup of pieces in Chess960 makes the game in many ways a better match for computerized play than conventional chess, where opening moves are usually stored in a database. By Kevin Poulsen.