Oliver Roeder is a journalist, author and games player. He is a former senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, where he covered the World Chess Championship and other gaming pursuits. The following is ...

Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, ...

Computer chess isn't just about playing games. For 60 years, chess has also been a key part of the debate over whether computers can approximate humans best through a brute force approach or whether ...