A man was slashed from behind while playing chess in Union Square on Sunday morning, according to cops and sources. The 62-year-old chess player was sitting down at a table in the park’s locally ...

Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu produced another landmark result as he defeated Magnus Carlsen once again in Norway Chess 2026 to tighten the title race. The 20-year-old, who had earlier beaten Carlsen with ...

Indian Grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa clinched a memorable victory over the five-time world champion in round three of the Norway Chess 2026 tournament in Oslo on Wednesday. This win is the ...

Magnus Carlsen, the highest-rated chess player in the world, suffered a devastating loss against Alireza Firouzja in the first round of Norway Chess 2026. The tournament takes place annually in ...

The elite field is headlined by former world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen and, besides Gukesh, also features Indian star R Praggnanandhaa, with a formidable Indian contingent aiming to end the country's ...

In chess, faster decisions are on average of higher quality. This is the conclusion of a study that has just been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team of ...

Large language models (LLMs) are bad at chess. 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 ...

CHARLESTON — When he was 3 years old, Sav Strickland played his first game of chess. He spotted a board while at a coffee shop with his dad and ran to grab it, begging to set it up. His father, ...

While we may be used to the spectator sports of Bloomsday, Hoopfest or Gonzaga basketball, the halls of the Spokane Convention Center are giving way this weekend to something a little less... loud.

SPOKANE, Wash. — A battle of wits in championship proportion comes to the Spokane Convention Center December 11-14. The country's top chess playing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade will ...