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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

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 ...