If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, ...

A new chess club in Merrill is helping players learn the ropes, and for some, the game is more than it appears.

In 2024, Vaishali and Praggnanandhaa became the first brother-sister duo to play in the Candidates Tournament.

From classic number grids to strategic board-based challenges, free online puzzle games continue to offer engaging ways to ...

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

The data, gathered through a new internal tool, will be used to improve AI agents’ ability to navigate software and complete ...

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 who died in 1957. His real identity remained unknown—until now.

Twenty-year old sensation Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan has run away with the Candidates Tournament, which determines the challenger to the reigning World Chess Champion. With only a few games ...

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 because they push me to play my best, but because of what they reveal ...

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 ...