Games have a long history of being used to teach military lessons, starting with ancient board games such as checkers and ...

T HE GRANDMASTER sits at the pinnacle of chess. The title evokes excellence and experience, a garland for someone who has ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that ...

The Chinese Xiangqi Association has issued lifetime bans to top players Wang Tianyi and Wang Yuefei for match-fixing and ...

The silver medal at the Malta Olympiad aside, Khan’s most memorable exploits on the chessboard involved defeating Belgian ...

Unlike previous DNA computers, the data can be erased and replaced like memory on classical computers to solve multiple ...

Bill Walton had a similar obsession, but instead of golf, it was chess. As peculiar as it sounds, his Boston Celtics ...

Sally Rooney’s new novel is entitled Intermezzo — the old chess term for an unexpected move. The board game is a significant ...

Chess victor Magnus Carlsen, ranked the world’s best player, competes against rival Hans Niemann at the Chess.com Speed Chess ...

Who has the highest IQ? Intelligence is the type of thing that seems like it would be difficult to measure, and the truth is ...

His privileged but unhappy boyhood in Evanston, Ill., was darkened by the relentless "war games" between his sparring parents and pressures from his pushy father. He says he found welcome escapes in ...

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