A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...

T his is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a ...

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

Chess players now get scanned to check for electrical devices. But no one is entirely sure these methods are watertight ...

The Uzbek 20-year-old won first prize unbeaten but his girlfriend, Bibisara Assaubayeva, finished second to the lowest seed in the Women’s Candidates ...

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

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

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 ...

Praggnanandhaa secured a draw against Wei Yi in the second round of the FIDE Candidates tournament, maintaining a joint lead with 1.5 points.

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

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 ...