What begins as a normal tournament chess game quickly turns into a sharp tactical battle. As the pieces develop, one side finds a sequence that puts enormous pressure on the opponent’s king and weak ...

Since 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue beat world champion and chess legend Garry Kasparov in a six-game match, chess players have accepted that machines are stronger at chess. We have taken some comfort ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

LET'S CATCH UP on some world chess news, which happily involves an American grandmaster we watched grow up in N.J. and N.Y. tournaments. GM Hikaru Nakamura won the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters for the ...