In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google’s parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers of chess. A year earlier, on ...

In many parts of the AI community, people are used to thinking about artificial intelligence as applied to new and modern forms of game theory. For example, some of the most tangible rollouts of AI ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Online chess has exploded in popularity since the Netflix ...

Chess has never been just a board game. It has always been a quiet reflection of the world around it. When societies changed, ...

Corrected: A previous version of this article referenced the International Chess Federation acronym as ICF. The acronym is FIDE. There are 25 million kids worldwide who play chess competitively, ...

In a world filled with sketchy stratagems and bad moves in every direction, the grandmasters of chess stand apart. There are fewer than 2,000 grandmasters worldwide. They play the “royal game” at the ...

Playing chess has always been a bellwether for computers. The game isn’t trivial, but the rules are managably simple. However, the game is too complex to be easily solved entirely, so you have to use ...

Entrepreneurs often have to take a leap of faith to get their businesses off the ground—whether it be cashing out their 401(k)s for funding or dropping out of Ivy League colleges to go all-in.