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

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

IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals.

With winter semester coming to an end, students across the Brigham Young University campus took time to reflect on what this ...

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 ...

The new feature-length doc tells the story of Magnus Carlsen, a Norwegian Grandmaster and the No. 1 chess player in the world ...

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest player in history. However, it cannot replace him. These ...

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

A Canadian journalist’s book analyses an ecosystem proliferated by genius, prodigies, oddballs and eccentrics, all of this ...

Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess, author Ben Mezrich explores every angle of the match where Niemann ...

Back in 1976, the Apple I showed that a computer for the rest of us meant something very different from today ...