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

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

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 ...

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 in 2022—which spiraled out of control with allegations of a player using ...

The Uzbek 20-year-old won first prize unbeaten but his girlfriend, Bibisara Assaubayeva, finished second to the lowest seed in the Women’s Candidates ...

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

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 ...

The new feature-length doc tells the story of Magnus Carlsen, a Norwegian Grandmaster and the No. 1 chess player in the world ...

In the Netflix film, Magnus Carlsen does not say sorry for accusing Hans Niemann of cheating without any evidence ...