Freestyle Chess debuts with $12M in funding for tournament series
Chess legend Magnus Carlsen and investor Jan Henric Buettner today revealed their new venture, Freestyle Chess, for which they’ve raised €10 million or about...
Arkadium launches Multiplayer Chess Online on July 20
Arkadium announced today that it is celebrating International Chess Day on July 20 with the launch of a new game: Multiplayer Chess Online. As...
Chessarama puzzle games collection launches on PC and Xbox in December
Minimol Games announced recently that it’s launching Chessarama, its collection of chess-based and chess-adjacent single-player puzzle games, on PC and Xbox on December 5....
Immortal Game raises $12M to build out Web3 chess platform
Immortal Game, the company behind the blockchain-based chess platform of the same name, announced it has raised $12 million in its latest round of...
DeepMind makes bet on AI system that can play poker, chess, Go, and more
DeepMind, the AI lab backed by Google parent company Alphabet, has long invested in game-playing AI systems. It’s the lab’s philosophy that games, while...
How Garry Kasparov aims to boost chess revival with online gaming portal
Chess is undergoing a revival. And chess legend Garry Kasparov hopes to keep it going with a new website he has started with Vivendi...
DeepMind’s MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
In a paper published in the journal Science late last year, Google parent company Alphabet’s DeepMind detailed AlphaZero, an AI system that could teach...
Chesh reinvents chess every time you play
When I was a kid learning to play chess, I had one big question that never had a good answer: “why?” Why does the...
Play chess against world champion Magnus Carlsen in this iPhone app
A new mobile app lets you go up against the new chess champion of the world, Magnus Carlsen.