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 ...

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 ...

Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess, author Ben Mezrich explores every angle of the match where Niemann improbably beat Carlsen, leading Carlsen to imply that Niemann had ...

David Brooks has always been a lover of games. It makes sense, then, that he’d make the right set of moves to launch children’s chess education franchise The Knight School in 2007, largely inspired by ...

One second per move against elite 2400 ELO players sounds impossible Watch how this intense challenge unfolds and see the surprising strategies and chaos that come with extreme speed chess #chess ...

A casual game at a chess club turns into a surprising encounter. A player who had only been learning chess for a few months sits down for his very first blitz game, unaware that his opponent is far ...

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world ...