is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told a podcast in March. In December, he withdrew ...

With over 960 possible opening positions and no second time control, Nakamura and Carlsen reckon the best preparation is no ...

If you scrunch your eyes up just as an offensive line sets for a play ... at chess so it was kind of simultaneous.” Leveraging these lessons from chess has turned the board game into a ...

The game helped a south Indian community escape alcoholism and gambling. Now, it’s known as the Chess Village of India.

But I feel happy because I can play with the top players. Q. Since Norway Chess is another long-format, 10-game tournament, how do you plan to prepare for it? I think maybe it’s more important ...

The game of chess has long been central to computer science and AI-related research, most notably in IBM's Deep Blue in the 1990s and, more recently, AlphaZero. But the game is about more than ...

Hikaru Nakamura looked like he had just finished a long stint on a treadmill. “Gassed,” was his evaluation of his physical state after he had managed to outmanoeuvre — and outlast — world champion ...

What you need to know about the 2025 Illinois High School Association chess state finals in Peoria, Illinois. Top teams and ...