Analysing how Lichess grew from a small open-source project into one of the world’s biggest chess platforms with no ads, no ...

The pandemic has reduced most professional sports to shadows of their former selves. But it's done wonders for one game, maybe the last one you'd ever guess: chess. "A boom is taking place in chess ...

It was nearly a cyber check-mate for India’s chess team. In what may be a first but is at the very least “unprecedented,” the International Chess Federation has declared dual winners in the online ...

More players are being drawn to the game of chess. Experts and chess champions are noticing increased interest in the hobby amid the pandemic, with some even claiming that a new Netflix series could ...

You’re reading Back of the Envelope, an experiment that aims to bring shorter, quicker content to FiveThirtyEight. Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian chess grandmaster and No. 1-ranked chess player in the ...

At my boy’s primary school the forward-thinking Principal has embraced chess as a part of the curriculum across the school. He has been collecting data over several years now to demonstrate how it has ...

Around three o’clock in the morning on May 4, 2021, a 20-year-old computer-science student named Sounak Pal fired up his gaming rig at his parents’ place in Pune, near Mumbai in India. His desk had ...

Since the 18th century, people have been fascinated by the idea of machines that could play chess against humans. With the advent of the digital electronic computer in the mid-20th century, that dream ...

The International Chess Federation filed the complaint against Vladimir Kramnik, a former world champion who had insinuated ...