Stockfish 16 is now available for download. The developers behind the engine say that it's now 50 Elo points ahead of Stockfish 15 and can beat it in 12 times more games when they play together.

Almost a year ago exactly, DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence (AI) division owned by Google parent company Alphabet, made headlines with preprint research ("Mastering Chess and Shogi by ...

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. But a ...