Enter the “Chess Challenger” by [slash/byte]. Modeled after a commercial gadget of the same name from 1978, his retro-themed open hardware design utilizes the Raspberry Pi Zero and modern ...

Related stories More than anything else, the internet has transformed how chess is played and talked about. It has infused the 1,500-year-old game with modern video-game sensibilities and smack talk.

The modern chess media is two-fold. On the one hand, there are the old-school reporters who are a blend of what one imagines baseball scouts and war correspondents to be like: grizzled men who ...

Since then, AI chess engines have continued to advance, becoming far more powerful than any human player. Modern chess engines, such as Stockfish and AlphaZero, consistently outperform top human ...

History is now on Gukesh's side as no challenger in modern chess has ever scored a win after being tied 5-5 after the 10th game. For Liren, the only comforting thing could be the fact that he had ...