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

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

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

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 ...

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

The Uzbek 20-year-old won first prize unbeaten but his girlfriend, Bibisara Assaubayeva, finished second to the lowest seed in the Women’s Candidates ...

Joint-leader R Vaishali (7 points) needs to beat last edition’s winner Tan Zhongyi in the 13th and penultimate round on Tuesday, with black pieces, to.

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 ...

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