To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, the electromagnet attracts the magnet inside a piece and drags it across ...

A few months after demonstrating its dominance over the game of Go, DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI has trounced the world’s top-ranked chess engine—and it did so without any prior knowledge of the game and ...

In 1996, a computer -- IBM's Deep Blue -- won a game against world champion chess player Garry Kasparov. But Kasparov won ...