Playing with online chess bots is fun. To some people playing online chess may not sound ‘real’, but the truth is, it is very real and sometimes more competitive than playing chess with ‘real’ people.

Allie is an AI chess bot that is trained on move records of over 91 million games played between humans. Be warned, as it can play at grandmaster levels, too.

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When the average person thinks of chess, they tend to picture classical games that take numerous hours as players take the time to fully calculate each and every line. Bullet chess goes completely ...

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After Niemann earned a shock win over world champion Magnus Carlsen in September, Carlsen had publicly accused Niemann of cheating Teenage chess grandmaster Hans Niemann has "likely cheated" in more ...