The brain chip, which Musk describes as a “Fitbit for your skull,” was implanted in its first live patient at the beginning ...

Marc Olsen was just 18 when he started winning money at backgammon. Sitting at his computer in Copenhagen in 2004, he would ...

Sitting at his computer in Copenhagen in 2004, he would challenge players from all over the world on one of the first ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Shortest History of AI‎,‎ Toby Walsh, published by Picador India.

A cerebral palsy player competed in a Chinese chess competition while wearing a non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) ...

American grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky’s death exposed an online culture at odds with the game’s staid reputation.

Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik has filed a lawsuit against the world chess federation (FIDE) in a Swiss civil court ...

Lia Smith was a senior at Middlebury College, a transgender woman and, for a time, an athlete on the school’s diving team.

In a world-first for national-level sports, Han Binbin, a player with cerebral palsy, competed in a Chinese chess tournament ...

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

Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...