C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

FIDE director general Emil Sutovsky responded to Magnus Carlsen and leaders of his Freestyle Chess venture in a heated social media post.

Intelligence is attractive, and so are these 11 chess grandmasters and players, whose moves have us locked in checkmate.

Founder and Executive director of the Edelman Fossil Park of Rowan University Paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara joins WIRED ...

Freestyle Chess head Jan Henric Buettner recently gave interviews to Norwegian media calling FIDE "stupid" and saying they ...

The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has responded to Magnus Carlsen’s bold suggestion that he is bigger than the organization.

In a world where robots fold laundry, is it too disconcerting to have one come for Olympics gold, asks Satyen K. In 2023, a ...

YoungHoon Kim, with an IQ of 276, is currently the highest IQ individual. The article lists nine more individuals, including ...

THE MASTERS final is taking place between Kyren Wilson and Shaun Murphy at Alexandra Palace RIGHT NOW! Murphy charged into a ...

It's already apparent that AI is going to disrupt professions like programming, medicine and law, but it appears to be just ...

In 2024, 18-year-old Gukesh became the youngest World Chess Champion, while India’s chess stars, including Koneru Humpy, R.

First, the audacity of hacking designer glasses to cheat at chess is peak “nerd flex” energy. Second, it opened up a Pandora’s box of ethical debates around technology and fair play ... that would ...