A young girl goes viral after impressing South Africans with her advanced chess skills while playing against her father in a ...

Through his mom's and grandmother's love, Ja'Monte Adams, a former Detroit chess wiz who died due to a blood disorder in 2018 ...

Some children are labeled difficult before they can speak — and it turns out that label was hiding the most interesting thing ...

Javokhir Sindarov played down the hype around his clash with D Gukesh at Super Rapid and Blitz Poland 2026 ahead of their ...

Jamie Ding’s 31-game winning streak on Jeopardy! came to an end on Monday night, in part due to him slipping up on a question about a shape. Ding’s string of victories ended abruptly on April 27 after ...

There really is, it turns out, a true story involving cheating in chess and a vibrating crotch. Only this one is a whodunnit that dates back more than 30 years and was only solved last week. Imagine ...

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...

The winner of the Candidates Tournament, a 20-year-old Uzbek, relies on his intuition and computers, and has not studied the great champions of history ...

And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not because they push me to play my best, but because of what they reveal ...

Praggnanandhaa, on 3 points, is now 2.5 points behind Sindarov and it remains to be seen if the last eight games can change ...