The world’s number one chess player, Magnus Carlsen, won his fifth Speed Chess Championship (SCC) Finals. Carlsen, 35, banked $25,000 plus an additional split based on winning percentage by beating ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The arrangement of the 32 pieces on a standard chess board has ...

Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...

The chess world is no stranger to scandals, from a 1960s fistfight between grand masters Bobby Fischer and Pal Benko to allegations of another grand master, Vladimir Kramnik, cheating in the 2006 ...

Editor’s note: This story includes a reference to suicide, which may be distressing to some readers. In life, Daniel Naroditsky spent the majority of his 29 years being celebrated. After being hailed ...

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 ...

On 18 November 1844, the Washington Chess Club challenged its counterparts in Baltimore to a match. Two teams were organized, and at 4 p.m. on 26 November, the first game commenced with three ...

The holidays are almost upon us, and one deal is standing out for tech enthusiasts, chess lovers, and shoppers. The SenseRobot Chess, the world’s first mass-produced AI chess robot arm designed for ...

The SenseRobot Chess is no typical cyborg. It’s a cute, yet advanced, AI-powered machine that will be a total head-turner during the holidays. It will also provide endless hours of entertainment, as ...

Regardless of the version, there is a compelling human drama at the center of “Chess,” floating atop some killer songs and an often gorgeous score. In its sweeping musical moments (“Nobody’s Side,” ...

With music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, the 1988 show revolves around rival American and Soviet chess wizards and the woman caught between them. By Richard Lawson On the digital ...

Duolingo has been through a lot of changes over the past few years. What was once solely a language-learning app has grown into a social media marketing machine, a destination for math and music ...