If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into play.

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

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

Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...

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

Noland Arbaugh made the opening move of the Speed Chess Championship in Paris – a contentious competition in which the ...

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

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, ...

For billions of years, DNA has quietly carried the blueprints for all life on Earth, encoding instructions for everything ...

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 ...

Richard Powers' latest novel brims with love for humanity and the planet. He makes clear that while humans have made this ...

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