Online games have gone through significant changes over the past couple of years. A decade or two ago, all we had were a ...

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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 ...

Chess instruction launches on Android phones, and Duolingo customers with iPhones will soon be able to play chess against each other. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content ...

For high-school seniors across the country, May 1 is the denouement of a college-admissions chess game that has become more complicated than ever. Friday—the deadline for students to tell colleges ...

You’re reading The Sporting Scene, Louisa Thomas’s weekly look at the world of sports. When Gukesh Dommaraju was a small child growing up in Chennai, India, his parents wanted him to be an athlete.

World chess body suspends Russia but dispute may not be over The governing body of world chess has suspended Russia, which was for decades the dominant force in the game, after a ruling by the world's ...

On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed into the center. But their opponents were not across the table, or even ...

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The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest player in history. However, it cannot replace him. These super-strong platforms ...

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The young chess player reached instinctively toward his threatened king, scanning the board for safe haven — until his instructor stepped in with a question. “If you move your king out of check, what ...