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

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

The Gamblers Behind One of the Weirdest Cheating Mysteries in Chess Have Been Unmasked

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

AI has mastered chess, so humans are changing the rules of the game

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest player in history. However, it cannot replace him. These super-strong platforms ...
The New York Times

Netflix Explores a Buzzy Chess Cheating Scandal

“Untold,” a sports documentary series, recounts a notorious match between two grandmasters and the cheating accusations that rocked the chess world and beyond. By Dylan Loeb McClain Dylan Loeb McClain ...
The Guardian

Untold: Chess Mates review – inside the anal beads rumours that rocked a sport

The ugly side of chess is pored over in this Netflix documentary, looking at how lurid online gossip led to a lawsuit, conspiracy theories and a bitter rivalry. Sadly, there’s little new here ‘Every ...
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 ...
The Conversation

How medieval chess created a space in which players – regardless of race – could engage as equals

In the medieval European imagination, racial difference was often highly polarised. Black people were perceived either as exotic status symbols – including saints and wealthy rulers such as the Queen ...
Wall Street Journal

The 20-Year-Old Chess Prodigy Laying Waste to the World’s Top Grandmasters

American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura was sitting at a chess board in Cyprus last week feeling absolutely stumped. The world’s No. 2 rated player, famous for his talents in speed chess, spent 67 ...
ESPN

Hans Niemann plots a path from chess villain to vindication

HANS NIEMANN CRINKLES his nose, leans forward and, without regard to polite society enjoying brunch on this spring Sunday morning in New York, launches into Joe Rogan and anal beads. "What type of..." ...
The Guardian

Chess Mates: the fantastic true story of the sex toy rumour that buzzed around the world

It was the anal bead theory that caused a global sensation. Now, a new Netflix film tells the tale of two grandmasters, one scandal – and a whole lot of bad blood Chess Mates (Netflix, Tuesday) has an ...