This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and shogi -- in just a few hours, a new study reports.

The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess ...

Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15 years ...

Brute forcing is a method in hacking (and apparently computer chess simulation) that means to run every possibility of a problem until the program finds the best solution.

Checkmate: OpenAI's o3 swept Musk's Grok 4 in an AI chess showdown.

A computer program built by Google now leads in a best of five contest against the world’s top player in a very complex board game.