Neowin News Feed for: Chess

Chess.com confirms data breach

Usama Jawad — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:46:01 +0000

Popular chess platform, Chess.com, has confirmed a data breach that affects many of its customers. Those affected have been offered some free services. Read more...

Opera browser gets new custom builds with built-in chess game

Aditya Tiwari — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:50:01 +0000

Opera has released custom builds of its web browser for desktop and Android. They feature Chess.com integration, allowing users to play the game while browsing the web or watching videos. Read more...

Stockfish 16 gets an even higher Elo rating, Fishtest now supports 10,000s of CPU cores

Paul Hill — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:38:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Robot breaks seven-year-old's finger during chess match

Usama Jawad — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:44:01 +0000

A robot recently broke the finger of a seven-year-old during a chess tournament in Russia. The machine practically pounced on the child's finger and grabbed it with force, proceeding to break it. Read more...

Garry Kasparov says Facebook's decision to axe facial recognition is stupid

Paul Hill — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 14:46:01 +0000

Garry Kasparov, the former chess champion, has said that it's stupid that Facebook is being essentially forced into disabling its facial recognition technology while China gets away with it. Read more...

Stockfish can crush you at chess even more efficiently in the 14.1 update

Paul Hill — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 23:30:01 +0000

Stockfish 14.1 has been released today with a 17 Elo point advantage over Stockfish 14. While not a huge leap, this update furthers the gap between the world's best players and chess engines. Read more...

How to set up the Stockfish chess engine to improve your skills

Paul Hill — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 13:00:01 +0000

In this guide, we'll look at how to download and set up the latest Stockfish chess engine to help you analyse your games to see where you can improve or just to see how it fares against other engines. Read more...

Save 92% off Complete Chess Bundle for Beginners to Advanced Players

News Staff — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 20:00:01 +0000

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Microsoft wants you to decide which casual games it should make next

Usama Jawad — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 07:40:01 +0000

Microsoft wants user feedback on which casual games it should develop next. People are required to vote for three of their favorite games from a selection of five, which includes Chess and Hearts. Read more...

Kasparov draws chess match

Sun, 09 Feb 2003 00:28:19 +0000

Garry Kasparov vs Deep Junior : Man vs Machine. Certainly makes a good headline, but is that all that this is? Today, Garry Kasparov drew the 4th match out of 6, leaving the final conclusion... Read more...

Chess champ takes on 'Deep Junior'

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:01:24 +0000

International chess great Garry Kasparov said he wanted to prove "human players are not hopeless" when he battles world champion computer program Deep Junior next week in the latest "Man vs Machine" contest. ... Read more...

Chess Champion Kramnik Beats 'Deep Fritz' Computer

Mon, 07 Oct 2002 19:08:17 +0000

Did he really win? no! He drew - but hey- he found a weakness- and exploited it. The only way were gunna survive when computers take over the world - you think im joking. You... Read more...