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.

Carlsen had no proof, just a feeling. His theory was that somehow Niemann was getting help from a computer. This was before ChatGPT, but even then, computers could easily beat even the best humans by ...

IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals.

Joint-leader R Vaishali (7 points) needs to beat last edition’s winner Tan Zhongyi in the 13th and penultimate round on ...

With winter semester coming to an end, students across the Brigham Young University campus took time to reflect on what this ...

On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...

The musician, whose real name is Sam Battle, will take part in the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in a few weeks.

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 ...

The new feature-length doc tells the story of Magnus Carlsen, a Norwegian Grandmaster and the No. 1 chess player in the world ...

Back in 1976, the Apple I showed that a computer for the rest of us meant something very different from today ...