Chess champions, rising stars and fans gathered for University of Sussex’s largest-ever tournament.

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 ...

Perplexity AI launched Personal Computer for Windows on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, extending its agentic desktop platform from Mac to the operating system that powers roughly 1.4 billion devices ...

Andy Woodward sits behind a chess board with his 2026 U.S. Junior Championship in St. Louis. He won his second championship ...

N Srinath believes computer engines offer superior learning for chess players today. He suggests traditional study methods ...

NEW DELHI: Earning an official FIDE (the primary governing body of chess) rating has never been easy. A player must participate in FIDE-rated tournaments, which are organised under strict regulations ...

R Praggnanandhaa made history and headlines on Friday: he became the first Indian to win the prestigious Norway Chess tournament, and - perhaps more remarkable - did both the double over Magnus ...

The new generation of chess bots eliminates jarring, inhuman moves, extends the rating ladder from true beginner to beyond 3000, and makes hyper-bullet time controls possible — redefining the chess vs ...

French mathematician Blaise Pascal famously called the game of chess “the gymnasium of the mind.” Slightly less famously, H.G. Wells called it “a curse upon a man.” In an 1897 essay, the science ...

If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, Missouri, home of the World Chess Hall of Fame, the next best thing might be ...

You’re reading The Sporting Scene, Louisa Thomas’s weekly look at the world of sports. When Gukesh Dommaraju was a small child growing up in Chennai, India, his parents wanted him to be an athlete.