Xyaire Hill, a Cleveland chess champion, credits the game for enhancing his focus and discipline, skills he'll carry to his studies in electrical engineering.

Since at least the 1950s, chess has served as a kind of benchmark for machine intelligence. IBM’s Deep Blue shocked the world in 1997 when it beat then-world champion Garry Kasparov. That machine used ...

For decades, the ability for computers to defeat humans at chess has been a measure of their power. In 1997, IBM made headlines when its Deep Blue technology defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov ...