For many chess champions, a sister made the opening move

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

After Magnus Carlsen, Chess Has Entered a New Age

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

The AI apps are coming for your PC

Plus: Coachella week two, Beef season two, the DJI Osmo Pocket 4, and more in this week’s Installer newsletter.
San Diego Union-Tribune

She’d love to see more women play chess, and maybe join her for a game over a beer

Julia Gale is one of the co-founders of Beers by the Bay Chess & Social, a social club started with co-founders Mark Laturno and Aidan Ryan in 2024. It works just like the name says—they meet up each ...

Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on the long game of AI

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

I’m a Chess Champion. Here’s Why I Play Chess Against ChatGPT

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 ...
The Indian Express

Why Magnus Carlsen cannot promote his own app Take Take Take as it enters ‘play and learn’ sectors

Magnus Carlsen’s Take Take Take app has joined forces with Lichess (a free, open-source platform run by volunteers) to expand its chess offerings to give app users “play and learn” functionality ...
Time

The True Story Behind Untold: Chess Mates

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 ...
Hindustan Times

Candidates chess: The thankless yet vital role seconds play

Javokhir Sindarov sat in the players lounge yawning, stretching his limbs and occasionally looking up at the screen before him to check if his opponent had played a move yet. Back in the playing hall, ...
The New York Times

Netflix’s Chess Mates: What we learned from the documentary on the scandal that rocked chess

Magnus Carlsen (left) and Hans Niemann at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships in 2025, playing each other again three years after the scandal involving the pair Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty ...
sportstar.thehindu

Magnus Carlsen’s start-up Take Take Take takes aim at Chess.com with move into play and learn tools

Magnus Carlsen’s chess startup ‌Take Take Take announced on Monday it was pushing into the play and learning markets central to Chess.com’s core business, despite commercial ties preventing ⁠him from ...

Chess Legend Magnus Carlsen Lost to Upstart Hans Niemann—Then All Hell Broke Loose

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 ...