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For many decades, it seemed professional Go players had reached a hard limit on how well it is possible to play. Then AI beat them.

It has been believed that the AI programs that play the strategy game of Go had gone far beyond human capability by 2016. In March 2016, it beat human world

The human player exploited a system flaw to beat his AI opponent. When it comes to games that use strategy to win, it seems impossible to beat a machine since it is already programmed to know all the possible steps and how to counter them.

The current AI revolution can trace many of its roots back to 2016 when Google's DeepMind AI beat a top-ranked Go player in five straight matches. While...

A strong amateur Go player has beat a highly-ranked AI system after exploiting a weakness discovered by a second computer..

We "work at" our chess a little too much sometimes, and every so often it's useful (and instructional, I might add) to be reminded of the great struggles and amazing moves that got us hooked on the game in the first place.

We "work at" our chess a little too much sometimes, and every so often it's useful (and instructional, I might add) to be reminded of the great struggles and amazing moves that got us hooked on the game in the first place.

While sophisticated programs increase the risk of cheating in tournaments, they reveal ever deeper insights to analysts and players

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess. A standard smartphone can now play the kind of moves that make a grandmaster’s head spin. But one artificial intelligence program is taking a few steps backward, to appreciate how average humans play—blunders and all. The AI chess program, known as Maia, uses the kind of cutting-edge AI behind the best superhuman chess-playing pr...