Inside the mind of Hikaru Nakamura, the chess world No 2 whose streaming career comes first

The top U.S. chess player discusses his YouTube channel, how he would change the game and why he doesn't want his son to ...

The Life-Saving Power of Chess, With a Side of Plantains

At a Haitian-Dominican cafe in Brooklyn, I found solace, friendship, and a newfound love of the game.

The dev behind my top upcoming RPG is a Hungarian chef who thought 'if not now, then when?' and learned coding from scratch to make his dream 'eurojank' masterpiece

With an abundance of free time in the early 2020s, he figured, "if not now, then when?" Embracing a lifelong love of Gothic and games like it, ForestWare decided to create his own ...

A supercomputer beat a human chess champ 30 years ago, paving a path for AI dominance

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.
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AI Just Cracked the Rules of a Lost Roman Board Game, and It’s Unlike Anything We Expected

The game the AI reconstructed — now dubbed Ludus Coriovalli (Game of Coriovallum) — is an asymmetric battle of attrition. It ...