Large language models (LLMs) are bad at chess. And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not because they push me to ...

The chess training landscape has evolved dramatically in 2026. While traditional engines like Stockfish still tell you the best move, modern AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude are now being used to ...

We live in a world where AI companies like OpenAI and Google are constantly looking for new ways to pit their AI models against each other. One of the most recent attempts to measure how top AI models ...

If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, Missouri, home of the World Chess Hall of Fame, the next best thing might be ...

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Booth is a reporter at TIME. Virtual chess pieces in the data matrix. 3d illustration. Booth is a reporter at TIME. Complex games like chess and Go have long been used to test AI models’ capabilities.

ChatGPT volunteered to play a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 to a game of chess and came to regret it after the eight-bit chess engine from the age of Disco Fever and the introduction of the Force did better ...

The SenseRobot Chess is no typical cyborg. It’s a cute, yet advanced, AI-powered machine that will be a total head-turner during the holidays. It will also provide endless hours of entertainment, as ...