When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.

Ever since the chess world went into collective panic over allegations of cheating among super-grandmasters back in 2022, the game has been roiled by rampant paranoia. Tournaments have scaled up ...

Chess may be the Game of Kings, but royalty could give way to machinery in the years to come. A recent study has found that artificial intelligence, when pitted in a tight game of chess, often resorts ...

Plus: a judge has ruled against Elon Musk's plans to prevent OpenAI to becoming a for-profit business This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what ...

The 19-year-old is also suing website Chess.com, which published a report saying he had likely cheated in more than 100 online games. Niemann says the defendants colluded to destroy his reputation and ...

Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.