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.

If you sit down to play an old-school board game like chess this holiday season, it might be humbling to keep in mind just how bad you’d be against a computer.

Toward the end of game, Kasparov and Deep Blue were like “two sumo wrestlers battling one another at the edge of a high cliff,” as Monty Newborn, chairman of the computer chess committee for ...

NEW YORK - World chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated computerized challenger Deep Junior on Sunday in the first of six games pitting human wit against computer logic. Kasparov forced the ...

Google AlphaGo computer beats professional at 'world's most complex board game' Go. Milestone in AI research likened to defeat of world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 by IBM’s Deep Blue ...

Before it ever played its first game, Giraffe “studied” 175 million chess positions generated this way, building its own understanding of the 1,500-year-old game.

Computer chess isn't just about playing games. Computer chess isn't just about playing games. Skip to content ... Oriental garb, presiding over a cabinet upon which a chess board sat.

The sixth game of the World Chess Championship was over before the sun set. This was new. The intricately fought contests had thus far lasted until night fell, and sometimes well beyond.

Thanks to over 3,000 backers a new electronic, connected chess computer and board have taken Kickstarter by storm raising over $900,000 with still 24 days Skip to main content Skip to secondary menu ...

HARI SREENIVASAN: Scientists have developed a program to beat the Chinese board game Go. The object of the game is to surround and control more area of the board with markers than your opponent.