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 book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh ...
A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.
In 2024, Vaishali and Praggnanandhaa became the first brother-sister duo to play in the Candidates Tournament.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
China's chess grandmaster Wei Yi finished fourth in his debut at the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, an achievement that ...
A decade ago, Hassabis's lifelong enduring love of play and AI led to AlphaGo beating the world's deepest board game. The ...
Sony's AI researchers have developed a robot that beats experienced table tennis players. They see this as a milestone on the ...