Competition from AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic is driving elite quantitative firms to raise entry-level offers to keep ...

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 ...

Discover how computers play chess, from the Mechanical Turk to advanced chess engines and their strategies against human ...

McKinney chess grandmaster Andy Woodward, 16, returns to St. Louis to defend his U.S. Junior Championship title after an undefeated run last year.

Chess. It’s been around hundreds of years, and you either love it or hate it (or, alternatively, just don’t know how to play it). If you’re not a fan of the checkerboard game then we can safely agree ...

In September of 2022, Magnus Carlsen had won 53 consecutive classical chess matches.Then, he sat down across from Hans Niemann. Carlsen, then 32 and a five-time World Championship, was widely ...

Hans Niemann (right) shockingly beat Magnus Carlsen at the 2022 Hans Niemann, right, plays against Magnus Carlsen Cip In September of 2022, Magnus Carlsen had won 53 consecutive classical chess ...

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 ...

It was the classic battle of man versus machine. On May 3, 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov faced off with IBM’s (IBM) Deep Blue supercomputer in New York City. Kasparov, a Russian chess ...

Magnus Carlsen claimed the Chess.com Open title after defeating Jan-Krzysztof Duda in a Grand Final reset, delivering a standout performance in an entirely online event, while competing on a tablet.

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.