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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World chess champion Magnus Carlsen has branded American teenager Hans Niemann a cheat and says he will never play against him ...

In the chess community, this month will be remembered for only one thing: Magnus Carlsen vs. Hans Niemann. The reigning world chess champion and a top-50 ranked grandmaster have spent the past few ...

Ever since the chess world went into collective panic over allegations of cheating among super-grandmasters back in 2022, the game has been roiled by rampant paranoia. Tournaments have scaled up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hikaru Nakamura, left, has rubbished allegations levelled against him by Russian grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik (Getty) Hikaru ...

These newer models appear more likely to indulge in rule-bending behaviors than previous generations—and there’s no way to stop them. Facing defeat in chess, the latest generation of AI reasoning ...

Another participant, the Russian Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi, called Niemann’s performance “more than impressive”. While Nieman has admitted to sometimes having cheated in previous online games, he ...

A cheating scandal has erupted in the staid and serious world of chess. When a second-tier chess player twice beat the world champion Magnus Carlsen, a Norse titan whom no one ever beats, chess ...