In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess in 2022—which spiraled out of control with allegations of a player using ...

Chess is a game requiring a significant amount of mental activity when it comes to strategy, but there is a theory that playing can also help you lose weight. During a recent episode of TMZ’s Strange ...

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

Chess may be the Game of Kings, but royalty could give way to machinery in the years to come. A recent study has found that artificial intelligence, when pitted in a tight game of chess, often resorts ...

Ever since the chess world went into collective panic over allegations of cheating among super-grandmasters back in 2022, the game has been roiled by rampant paranoia. Tournaments have scaled up ...