Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the ...

There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around to their new ...

Chess may be the Game of Kings, but royalty could give way to machinery in the years to come. A recent study has found that artificial intelligence, when pitted in a tight game of chess, often resorts ...

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Booth is a reporter at TIME. Complex games like chess and Go have long been used to test AI models’ capabilities. But while IBM’s Deep Blue defeated reigning world chess ...