The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...

Chess players now get scanned to check for electrical devices. But no one is entirely sure these methods are watertight ...

T his is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a ...

In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician ...

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess ...

A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

Untold,” a sports documentary series, recounts a notorious match between two grandmasters and the cheating accusations that ...

Carlsen had no proof, just a feeling. His theory was that somehow Niemann was getting help from a computer. This was before ChatGPT, but even then, computers could easily beat even the best humans by ...

Joint-leader R Vaishali (7 points) needs to beat last edition’s winner Tan Zhongyi in the 13th and penultimate round on ...

The Uzbek 20-year-old won first prize unbeaten but his girlfriend, Bibisara Assaubayeva, finished second to the lowest seed in the Women’s Candidates ...

Indian chess prodigy Nihal Sarin brushed off an online opponent’s rude gesture earlier this year, focusing instead on his ...

For more than a decade, the Sinquefield Cup has been a key stop on the Grand Chess Tour, bringing together some of the ...