The Picochess chess program already has a long and storied history behind it—something you should be aware of if you’re looking to download and use it to play chess with on Raspberry Pi. After years ...

Chess was first invented in India around the 6th century AD. The early version of this game was called Chaturanga, a Sanskrit word that means “four divisions of the army”. These divisions stood for ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, died Monday. He was 29. The Charlotte Chess Center in ...

The new Raspberry Pi 500+ is a computer that looks like a keyboard. That’s because, like the Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi 400, it’s basically a fully functional computer stuffed inside the ...

Chess.com has disclosed a data breach after threat actors gained unauthorized access to a third-party file transfer application used by the platform. The incident occurred in June 2025, with the ...

But last weekend, it lost a game of chess. Not to a human grandmaster or even to some other fancy AI. It lost to an Atari 2600 that first appeared in the 1970s and can only calculate one or two chess ...

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In the beginning of 1910, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo commenced his work to make a chess-playing automaton, to prove his theory that machines could do many things ‘popularly classed as thought.’ Torres ...

Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind. As a child, Hassabis became a chess champion, competing in international tournaments. Hassabis credits chess with leading to an interest in programming ...

From a raw performance standpoint, the Raspberry Pi 5 completely outclasses the Pi 4. Going from Arm Cortex-A72 in the Pi 4’s SoC to Cortex-A76 cores is a big jump in its own right as these cores are ...