The weight of the world title can break even the strongest of players. For 19-year-old D. Gukesh, the pressure recently reached a visible breaking point.

It's worth knowing whether you're just playing a game you like — or maybe also improving your brain chemistry.

Thirty years ago from February 10-17, 1996, in Philadelphia, USA, world chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated the ...

In southern Russia, archaeologists have uncovered an ancient board game that may hold the key to the origins of chess.

ChatGPT 5.4 Thinking adds KUA computer interaction; demos show token use dropping by up to two-thirds in some tasks, lowering run costs.

Gukesh Dommaraju paused in the middle of the Prague Masters to apologise to fans, the moment felt unusually raw and e.

Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar inaugurated the largest chess championship in the province, with more than 350 players participating enthusiastically.The event ...

AI doomsters believe that AI will quickly become better at “everything.” That may not be true, but what if it is? What does that mean most immediately for the arts, where AI slop is already permeating ...

Twenty-nine years ago, IBM's computer Deep Blue beat the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It has since become clear that computers are superior to humans at the Game of Kings. Yet despite ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Duolingo has launched its Chess Player-vs-Player or PvP mode on Android, expanding access to its beginner-focused chess course following its iOS debut in late 2025. With the Android rollout, more ...