Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position. The human’s lone black king could be on one of 48 squares in the ...

but as you consider AI‘s impact on chess, you can see that it represents an early form of “human displacement,” where the machine simply gets better at the game than any human. Karatekin ...

becoming the face of the daunting Russian chess machine. He famously defended his title against American Bobby Fischer in the “Match of the Century” in 1972 — a match which, played at the ...

The upcoming World Chess Championship will see a unique dynamic as India's Gukesh, known for his computer-like precision, faces China's Ding Liren, who has shown vulnerability under pressure. Experts ...