Homemade chess board moves its own pieces. And wins.

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

Building A Self-Playing Chess Board Robot

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 ...
The New York Times

The Stealth Campaign That’s Getting Your Kids Hooked on Chess

Pandemic boredom and a Netflix mini-series, “The Queen’s Gambit,” added to the game’s sudden popularity. But Chess.com was also plotting its own moves. Danny Rensch, left, chief chess officer of Chess ...
How-To Geek on MSN

You're not supposed to play chess on a Kindle, but I do it anyway

The e-ink display is perfect for chess, whether you're playing solo, online, or against the person next to you.
The Verge

Neuralink video shows patient using brain implant to play chess on laptop

The company’s first human patient said the technology has changed his life but that ‘there’s still a lot of work to be done.’ The company’s first human patient said the technology has changed his life ...
Wired

Google’s Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AI

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 ...
Gizmodo

Inside a Computer’s Brain Playing Chess

Here’s what happens inside a computer when it plays chess. Spoiler: It’s a lot of “hmmm, let’s do this! No, this! Oh, this! Wait, this! Hmmaybe this! That’s wrong! Let’s do this!” [Turbulence via DRB] ...