T his is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a ...

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...

In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician ...

A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

Chess players now get scanned to check for electrical devices. But no one is entirely sure these methods are watertight ...

The new feature-length doc tells the story of Magnus Carlsen, a Norwegian Grandmaster and the No. 1 chess player in the world ...

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess in 2022—which spiraled out of control with allegations of a player using ...

IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals.

China's chess grandmaster Wei Yi finished fourth in his debut at the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, an achievement that ...

Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess, author Ben Mezrich explores every angle of the match where Niemann improbably beat Carlsen, leading Carlsen to imply that Niemann had ...

With winter semester coming to an end, students across the Brigham Young University campus took time to reflect on what this ...

A Canadian journalist’s book analyses an ecosystem proliferated by genius, prodigies, oddballs and eccentrics, all of this ...