Cheat code A range of engines — Stockfish, Komodo, among them — are publicly available online and many are free. These programs throw up a move or a list of moves for a particular chess position.

Designed with magnetic docking, the robotic arm locks securely into place on the Manya Cynus board in one smooth move.

If I'm losing badly, I'll check Next Chess Move to see what the computer saw that I didn't. It's amazing how often the engine spots tactics or long-term strategies that completely go over my head.

A chess engine allows a player to analyse their game by suggesting a sequence of moves and providing them an evaluation number. An evaluation score of 0 indicates that neither black nor white has ...

The chess engine created during the research is known as Maia. Maia was released on the free online chess server lichess.org and participated in more than 40,000 matches its first week.

The future of chess could be right here. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme AlphaZero's recent, mind-boggling exploit -- destroying the highest-rated chess engine Stockfish in a 100-game ...

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 ...

This new chess engine could eventually help medical professionals create better strategies for their emergency rooms, or even make real-time queuing and assignment decisions for them. The research, ...