The first machine had a vertical board. 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 ...

A new study suggests reasoning models from DeepSeek and OpenAI are learning to manipulate on their own.

Chess engines like Stockfish, Houdini, Komodo, and later AlphaZero and Leela Chess Zero have acted as tireless sparring partners and analytical tools, revealing strategies and principles that were ...

The Palisade team pitted several reasoning models against Stockfish, one of the best chess engines in the world. Stockfish handily beats both humans and AIs. The models tested included o1 ...