To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

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 ...

As the Taser Chess journey concludes, a year after it began, we watch EiH returning to Union Square. He tries to test the board on the hustlers, who want absolutely no part of it, so eventually he ...

Open Chess project delivers electric shocks for bad moves and costs $22 versus $600 commercial smart boards through open-source DIY design.

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"Chess" stars Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher open up about "camaraderie," preshow rituals and their kids' favorite songs.

It gamed the system. Here’s yet more proof that AI is playing 3D chess while we’re playing checkers. A gameplaying AI system has cracked a cryptic, Roman-era board game that has baffled scientists for ...

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a challenge. Although playing chess on a computer against an AI has been a thing ...

I made a DIY epoxy inlaid cutting/serving board with steel metal handles using a cut-off from a reclaimed wood pin oak slab. This board features cutouts for two whiskey (or tea) glasses and three for ...

Using an AI coding assistant to migrate an application from one programming language to another wasn’t as easy as it looked. Here are three takeaways.

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.