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 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 ...

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

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.

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.

It was the classic battle of man versus machine. On May 3, 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov faced off with IBM’s ...

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 ...

Computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil believes humanity will achieve “longevity escape velocity” in just three years.

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 ...

A Canadian journalist’s book analyses an ecosystem proliferated by genius, prodigies, oddballs and eccentrics, all of this sometimes in one person ...