A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh ...

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

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

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

Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

A decade ago, Hassabis's lifelong enduring love of play and AI led to AlphaGo beating the world's deepest board game. The ...

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

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

And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not ...

Hammer has cut the ribbon on a programme that has been put together to enable channel partners to get through the complexity of artificial intelligence (AI) to understand where it translates into ...

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 ...

For more than a decade, the Sinquefield Cup has been a key stop on the Grand Chess Tour, bringing together some of the world’s top players in a competition that helps define the highest level of the ...