Twenty-four years ago on Monday, a world chess champion came up against a force too great to overcome: a computer. Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a six-game match on February 10, 1996, against ...

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Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, ...

The World Chess Championship was already a week old when something stunning happened in Game 6: after nearly eight hours of play last Friday, someone actually won. It was the first time in five years ...

Board Game Cheating accusations and worse are tearing the chess world apart in the aftermath of a 29 year-old grandmaster's death—What is happening in the game of kings? MOBA Gabe Newell waxes poetic ...

The Speed Chess Championship will be broadcast live later this month. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Recently, I wrote a list of ...

Thanks to over 3,000 backers a new electronic, connected chess computer and board have taken Kickstarter by storm raising over $900,000 with still 24 days remaining. ChessUp is a new chess computer ...

Hans Niemann has been accused of cheating at chess, but there has been little proof offered to how he might be cheating at over-the-table chess compared to past accusations of cheating at online chess ...

Years ago, [Leo Neumann]’s girlfriend gave him a 1970s chess computer game that was missing almost everything but the super cool clicky keyboard. Noting the similarity of chess move labeling to chord ...