Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

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

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

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

To the average person, the movement of a pawn on a chess board has nothing to do with a tackle on a football field. However, ...

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

Players have grown more suspicious ... quietly close the account of any grandmaster caught using computer assistance. While Chess.com viewed that as the safest route legally, it also produced ...

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

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training ...

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

A top chess player accused of cheating has insisted he is "not going to back down" after making his first comments on the scandal in nearly a month. On Tuesday, a Chess.com investigation claimed ...

An 18-year-old Indian chess player has sparked a conversation on attitudes towards women in the sport with an Instagram post about her experiences. Divya Deshmukh, who is an International Master ...