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 ...

Chess.com offers an enormous library of lessons for all levels (which, unfortunately, requires a premium subscription for ...

Hans Niemann is gearing up to play tens of thousands of players simultaneously at Web Summit. View on euronews ...

Chess is the world’s favorite board game, with an estimated 605 million players globally, thanks to studies by FIDE and ...

Carlsen is no novice when it comes to chess apps. The Play Magnus game, which he started in 2014, gave online users the chance to play against a chess engine modeled against his own gameplay.

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

Last December, I spent a cloudy day holed up at the Mechanics' Institute, a venerable chess club in San Francisco, to play in the 22nd ... I periodically played online against a college buddy.

A nine-year-old chess prodigy is set to make history as the ... "On the weekends, I usually play tournaments, but when I don’t I practice for more than an hour." While some of her teammates ...

Vidit noted pivotal victories against the USA and China, expressing pride in the team's historic performance. "India has definitely become a chess superpower ... I like to play long games.

Christopher Yoo had been beaten by defending champion GM Fabiano Caruana but appeared to react angrily to the defeat and was seen in a video published online ... the US Chess safe play policy.

On Tuesday, a Chess.com investigation claimed it was "likely" Hans Niemann cheated in more than 100 games online ... following a convincing win against 15-year-old grandmaster Christopher Yoo ...

play the game far better than any unaided human being. The watershed moment in computerized chess came in 1997 when the world champion, Garry Kasparov, was defeated by a computer called Deep Blue.