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.

Google Labs, the experimental arm of the tech giant, has introduced a new online project that offers an entertaining variation of the game of chess. The web experiment is named GenChess, which, as the ...