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

T his is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a ...

Chess players now get scanned to check for electrical devices. But no one is entirely sure these methods are watertight ...

A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and ...

Back in 1976, the Apple I showed that a computer for the rest of us meant something very different from today ...

Carlsen had no proof, just a feeling. His theory was that somehow Niemann was getting help from a computer. This was before ChatGPT, but even then, computers could easily beat even the best humans by ...

With winter semester coming to an end, students across the Brigham Young University campus took time to reflect on what this ...

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In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician ...

A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

Untold,” a sports documentary series, recounts a notorious match between two grandmasters and the cheating accusations that rocked the chess world and beyond.

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess ...