In the decades since IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, artificial intelligence has transformed the way humans play the game, and not always for the ...

Online chess has in the last ten years transformed into a niche experiment into the center of the chess world. What started as a mere method of clicking pieces on a virtual board has now developed ...

The world’s top-ranked chess player, Magnus Carlsen, has drawn an unprecedented game where he played against more than 143,000 players from around the world. The event set a new record for someone ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a 29-year-old standard-bearer in the world of competitive speed chess that flourished in the COVID-19 pandemic, died over the weekend and leaves behind a legacy as one of the greats ...

Teenage chess grandmaster Hans Niemann has "likely cheated" in more than 100 online chess games hosted by Chess.com, according to a report commissioned by the popular online chess website. On Tuesday, ...

The fiery cheating scandal consuming the chess world for the past month appears to be coming to a close and it looks like 19-year-old grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann has found himself in checkmate. A ...

Is online gaming ruining chess? Players say it’s not quite as black and white as that - IN FOCUS: The lockdown, combined with ...

It's taking over schools, nightclubs, and the internet. And it's never been more toxic. There is a singular misery to trying your very best, after months of training, only to be crushed by a ...

Playing with online chess bots is fun. To some people playing online chess may not sound ‘real’, but the truth is, it is very real and sometimes more competitive than playing chess with ‘real’ people.

It’s been almost a month since 13 high school students and their coaches from Renaissance High School, a public magnet school in Detroit, Mich., piled on a bus for the nine-hour ride to Washington, ...