Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton ...

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen will be defending his title this fall against his Russian challenger, Sergey Karjakin.

Oliver Roeder is a journalist, author and games player. He is a former senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, where he covered the ...

Ever since he beat the greatest chess player who ever lived, Hans Niemann has been called a cheat. The 19-year-old’s surprising ...

Cheating poses an existential challenge to chess. It's hard to know how it will be mitigated, but it must be, if chess is to ...

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy ...

Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. Chess is 500 years old. But in the past two years, it’s become a totally different ...

Levy Rozman answers the internet's burning questions about the game of chess. What's the best opening? How do you become a ...