“I kind of compare chess to the game of basketball, just making the right reads, making the right decisions” — Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown. Jaylen Brown is squarely in the middle of a game of ...

On Feb. 19 of this year, Dorsa Derakhshani found herself at the center of a controversy. She didn't see it coming. But this story begins a few years earlier than that. OK, a lot of years earlier. The ...

Are experts more intelligent than non-experts or do they just work harder? And why do some people reach high levels of expertise, while others just remain amateurs? These are some of the questions ...

At the United States Chess Championship, I entered a world of chess as serious business. For one thing, I was wanded by a security guard on my way up to the competition. (To prevent cheating, cell ...

Twelve years ago, Grandmaster Garry Kasparov announced that he was retiring from the professional chess scene after winning the 2005 Linares Chess Tournament. Now he's back. The 54-year-old chess ...

As a young girl, Yifan Hou was enchanted by the shapes of chess pieces. This initial intrigue coupled with a natural flair for the game set her on track to become the youngest woman to earn the ...

For much of the 20th century, the game of chess served as a benchmark for artificial intelligence researchers. John McCarthy, who coined the term "artificial intelligence" back in the early 1950s, ...

A robot developed by engineers in Taiwan can pour coffee and move chess pieces on a board against an opponent, but he's looking for a real job. The robot developed by Taiwan's Industrial Technology ...

The robots are coming for your … chess game. Google’s AI, AlphaZero, developed a “superhuman performance” in chess in just four hours. Essentially, the AI absorbed humanity’s entire history of chess ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Six years ago, Ambakisye Osayaba made his big move — he quit his part-time city job cleaning Central Park and began playing chess full-time. Now he earns up to $400 a day, taking on all comers from a ...