Now, It’s Making the Game Beautiful Again A former world champion teams up with the makers of AlphaZero to test variants on the age-old game that can jolt players into creative patterns.

Computer chess engines surpassed the world’s best human players in the 1990s. They can calculate millions of moves per second, allowing them to quickly make the best decision on the board. So why ...

Decades ago, I invented an educational game that resembled our complicated legal system. Because of my experience with this game, I was excited by recent reports that chess has recently become ...