We live in a world where AI companies like OpenAI and Google are constantly looking for new ways to pit their AI models against each other. One of the most recent attempts to measure how top AI models ...

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

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Virtual chess pieces in the data matrix. 3d illustration. Booth is a reporter at TIME. Complex games like chess and Go have long been used to test AI models’ capabilities.

For years, the game of chess has been seen as a litmus test for how far AI can go against the human intellect. When IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat reigning Chess world champion Garry Kasparov in ...

The world’s top performing artificial intelligence models, including OpenAI’s o3 and 04-mini, Google LLC’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4, and xAI Corp.’s Grok 4 are ...

Large language models (LLMs) are bad at chess. And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not because they push me to ...

In many parts of the AI community, people are used to thinking about artificial intelligence as applied to new and modern forms of game theory. For example, some of the most tangible rollouts of AI ...