As Gukesh and Sindarov gear up for a historic World Championship clash, chess has transformed from a niche hobby into a ...

What happens when human logic meets computer precision in chess This breakdown reveals a surprising move that most players ...

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 Dommaraju, as they compete in an era defined by computers.

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart mocked President Donald Trump’s allies for claiming that the president was playing “5D chess” against Iran on Monday, despite Trump seemingly not getting any of the ...

NEW DELHI: History was created on the Mediterranean shores as Vaishali Rameshbabu clinched the 2026 Women’s Candidates Tournament on Wednesday, earning the right to challenge China’s reigning champion ...

The modern era of cheating in chess began on a Thursday in July 1993, when a man with shoulder-length dreadlocks walked into the World Open tournament in Philadelphia and registered as John von ...

Large language models (LLMs) are bad at chess. And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not because they push me to ...

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 ...