This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and shogi -- in just a few hours, a new study reports.

Brute forcing is a method in hacking (and apparently computer chess simulation) that means to run every possibility of a problem until the program finds the best solution.

Checkmate: OpenAI's o3 swept Musk's Grok 4 in an AI chess showdown.

The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess ...

A game from the Komodo-Stockfish match in the recent Thoresen Chess Engines Competition shows that computers can play interesting games.

A Google computer program just destroyed a human champion in a game that's even harder than chess By Tanya Lewis Jan 27, 2016, 10:15 AM PT Goban1 ...

Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15 years ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...