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.

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

A decade ago, Hassabis's lifelong enduring love of play and AI led to AlphaGo beating the world's deepest board game. The ...

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 ...

Venerable Huayan, a senior monk from China, has become an unlikely social media sensation for his high-level skills in the ...

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 ...

Friendship has never looked this elegant. Episode 28 of Dr. Stone was a total vibe.

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.

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