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

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...

T his is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a ...

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

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 grandmaster Magnus Carlsen just won a $250,000 online chess tournament using an iPad. He didn't have a computer and ...

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

Indian chess prodigy Nihal Sarin brushed off an online opponent’s rude gesture earlier this year, focusing instead on his game. Since then, he has surged in form, reaching a career-high rating of 2723 ...

In the Netflix film, Magnus Carlsen does not say sorry for accusing Hans Niemann of cheating without any evidence ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aronyak Ghosh achieved his long-awaited Grandmaster title after a remarkable performance at the 23rd BCC Open 2026 in Bangkok. The 22-year-old's journey, marked by his father's dedication and the ...