Discover how computers play chess, from the Mechanical Turk to advanced chess engines and their strategies against human opponents.

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 ...

Duolingo has been through a lot of changes over the past few years. What was once solely a language-learning app has grown into a social media marketing machine, a destination for math and music ...

Chess has a reputation for cold calculation, but the research tells a warmer story. A study published in Frontiers in ...