The new generation of chess bots eliminates jarring, inhuman moves, extends the rating ladder from true beginner to ...

Bot Auto completed a 230-mile driverless commercial shipment in Texas without a human in the cab or remote operator. The run was booked by Ryan Transportation and chosen because overnight lanes are ...

American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura was sitting at a chess board in Cyprus last week feeling absolutely stumped. The world’s No. 2 rated player, famous for his talents in speed chess, spent 67 ...

Ten minutes past one in the afternoon—and Magnus Carlsen’s world was crashing down around him. This can’t be happening. Magnus ran a hand through his disheveled mane of auburn hair, a chaotic halo ...

In the medieval European imagination, racial difference was often highly polarised. Black people were perceived either as exotic status symbols – including saints and wealthy rulers such as the Queen ...

South Texas is the chess capital of the state, due in large part to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Its chess team is preparing to defend its national title in competitive collegiate chess.

I started the game confident. The goal was simple: beat my own chess bot in under five minutes. Then it played the Cow Opening — and I completely underestimated it. I thought I had a dream position, ...

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From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China. When he first noticed the traffic spike, Quintero ...

A C++ chess engine featuring an Alpha-Beta pruning search with iterative deepening and a (minimal, under dev)Universal Chess Interface (UCI). This project includes a Python wrapper to deploy the ...

Aden Carter is a Freelance Writer at DualShockers who has been covering games professionally since 2020. He specializes in lists and guides, with a focus on RPGs, horror games, survival horror, ...

Christopher is a writer and musician who spends as much time as possible playing video games and watching anime. He is often found repeatedly dying at the hands of random FromSoftware bosses, though ...