In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician ...

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 ...

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

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess ...

Untold,” a sports documentary series, recounts a notorious match between two grandmasters and the cheating accusations that ...

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest ...

Anthropic is joining the increasingly crowded field of companies with AI agents that can take direct control of your local computer desktop. The company has announced that Claude Code (and its more ...

Lea Michele will end her run in Broadway’s “Chess” this summer. The “Glee” star will leave the production on June 21, 2026. Michele’s return to the stage has made “Chess” one of the season’s hottest ...

Anatoly Karpov feels D Gukesh only became world champion because Magnus Carlsen decided against defending his title in 2023. Image credit: FIDE Gukesh Dommaraju had etched his name in chess history on ...

Compatriot Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, likely to play Erling Haaland has become a significant investor in a new world chess championship tour that is expected to star his fellow Norwegian Magnus ...

Former world champion Anatoly Karpov has claimed in an interview with a Russian newspaper that reigning world champion D Gukesh got the crown by “accident”. It must be noted that Karpov’s own first ...