Chess wizards up the ante in diving chess, where they must hold their breath and play a match on the bottom of a pool, with ...

Chess meets extreme endurance in one of the world’s strangest and most fascinating sports. Lithuania’s Paulius Pultinevicius ...

The new generation of chess bots eliminates jarring, inhuman moves, extends the rating ladder from true beginner to ...

Frans Peeters. The cliché says good decisions take time. But in professional chess, the opposite pattern keeps appearing.

Yarden Bloch said she had assumed the game would not take place because Iranian athletes have often been prevented from competing against Israelis. Israeli chess player Yarden Bloch of Kiryat Haim ...

Russia is no stranger to unique poisonings. State agents have been known to use everything from polonium-laced tea to the deadly nerve agent "novichok" when making assassination attempts against both ...

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

Has it become easier to become a chess Grandmaster now than before? Star player Hikaru Nakamura feels that’s the case. He ...