The World Chess Hall of Fame & Galleries (WCHOF) today announced the 2026 U.S. and World Chess Hall of Fame inductees. Members of both Halls of Fame are chosen for their impact on the sport and ...

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It’s been almost three decades since Garry Kasparov, one of the world’s most brilliant chess grandmasters, lost a match to IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer. I recently sat down with him to discuss what ...

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While nothing should take away from the significance of his victory over one of the world’s best players, load-shedding and playing on a hotspot during a blackout are merely the tip of an iceberg of ...

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There really is, it turns out, a true story involving cheating in chess and a vibrating crotch. Only this one is a whodunnit that dates back more than 30 years and was only solved last week. Imagine ...