A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and ...

An autonomous robot ping-pong player dubbed Ace has achieved a milestone for AI and robotics in Tokyo by competing against ...

AI researchers have long used board games like chess as benchmarks for a computer's capabilities. They later moved into more ...

Chess Mini is a self-contained chess-playing robot that pairs a physical robotic arm with camera recognition and an ...

In the realm of elite competition, a professional chess set is more than a tool; it is a precisely engineered instrument. In a game where the gap between a hard-fought win and a frustrating draw comes ...

Medieval manuscripts, paintings and chess sets reveal that the so-called "game of kings" defied social structures and racial attitudes by celebrating the intellectual prowess of winners irrespective ...

Ludus Latrunculi board, an ancient Roman strategy game. Credit: Raimundo Pastor / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists in southern Russia have uncovered the remains of a 3,000 BC board game that may represent ...

It sounds like the beginning of a horror movie: Archaeologists in southern Russia have uncovered the remains of a roughly 6,000-year-old board game that researchers believe could represent a very ...

As board games go, it's hard to get more influential than chess. It's not the oldest game out there, Go is more than a millennium older, but Chess still predates Monopoly by roughly five centuries.

In southern Russia, archaeologists have uncovered an ancient board game that may hold the key to the origins of chess. Archaeologists working in southern Russia have uncovered an ancient board game ...

No matter what era we live in, Chess will most likely be a forever game that will last another couple dozen centuries by passing it down through the generations. But as new players come up and the way ...

Casual players don’t really think much about their board. If it is square and both sets of pieces are black and white, you can play. Professional players have a different strategy for their equipment.