The auto-battler wars are well underway on PC now, with Valve's Dota Underlords and Riot's Teamfight Tactics currently duking it out for supremacy. But the studio that kicked this trend off to begin ...

If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play. That ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...