TAMPA, Fla. (BLOOM) — I didn’t expect a chessboard to turn me into a regular player again. But the GoChess Lite Modern, with its sleek LED cues and AI coaching, did just that, and improved my game.

The chess training landscape has evolved dramatically in 2026. While traditional engines like Stockfish still tell you the best move, modern AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude are now being used to ...

When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had recently read Garry Kasparov’s Deep Thinking, a memoir of the ...