Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently published a study seeking to understand why a YouTube chess channel with over one million subscribers had a live interview pulled for "harmful and ...

Have a good mind for computational problem-solving? Fancy netting a cool $1 million for your efforts? Then the University of St. Andrews and the Clay Mathematics Institute sure have the competition ...

When Hikaru Nakamura and Gata Kamsky faced Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Grischuk in the ninth round of the 40th World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, the seasoned grandmasters drew upon years of ...

Since the 18th century, people have been fascinated by the idea of machines that could play chess against humans. With the advent of the digital electronic computer in the mid-20th century, that dream ...

In 1997, Garry Kasparov, widely regarded as the world's greatest chess player, was defeated by Deep Blue, a computer. But how much did that reveal about the 'brainpower' of machines? Tim Harford ...

Ken Regan could be called a chess detective. NPR's Scott Simon talks to the computer scientist and chess master whose algorithm reveals whether players are cheating at the game. Ken Regan is a kind of ...