A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh ...

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

In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician who died in 1957. His real identity remained unknown—until now.

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

“In our game, there are so many moving pieces — it’s almost like a chess match,” the U.S. Men’s National Team midfielder told ...

Magnus Carlsen claimed the Chess.com Open title after defeating Jan-Krzysztof Duda in a Grand Final reset, delivering a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In the Netflix film, Magnus Carlsen does not say sorry for accusing Hans Niemann of cheating without any evidence ...