In Pickle Chess, there are 960 different ways the pieces might be arrayed at the start. Meaning that you can’t play from memory, making the game so much easier for neophytes.

Google has released a new chess website that puts one fun twist on the game: it uses custom pieces that are created each time by generative AI. The game starts by letting you type in a short ...

The custom chess pieces can be as elaborate or as simple as users want, with Google examples including a cactus, poodle, egg, tennis ball, rubber ducky, cactus, fuzzy pieces, and more, as seen below.

The web experiment is named GenChess, which, as the name implies, uses Gemini Imagen 3, Google’s image-generation model, allowing players to customize their own chess pieces using text prompts ...

It’s not just about moving pieces — it’s about doing so with precision and flair. At its core, the Pi Board employs an XY stepper motor grid coupled with magnets to glide chess pieces across ...

In an alternate world, the former, the World No 1 across all three regular formats (Classical, Rapid and Blitz), would have arrived in the city-state to play the final. Now? Not so much.

The game of chess has long been central to computer science and AI-related research, most notably in IBM's Deep Blue in the 1990s and, more recently, AlphaZero.

You may like ChatGPT is no match for a 40-year-old digital Pocket Chess game, and I bet Garry Kasparov would be pleased; I pitched the new Google Gemini against ChatGPT for AI image generation ...