World champion D Gukesh has begun his campaign at the Prague International Chess Festival Masters with back-to-back draws, surviving a tough phase against Hans Niemann and holding the American GM to a ...

Heisler’s Skinner box-esque chess set was inspired by similarly masochistic DIY projects like an electrified keyboard, and gets its voltage from a reconfigured TENS unit. Short for Transcutaneous ...

Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the ...

Gukesh addressed cheating in chess and urged greater harmony in the game. According to the World Champion, the issue is being ...

At a time when most kids are learning early lessons in math and science, chess prodigy Gukesh was already contemplating moves on the checker board. Within 5 years he would go on from being a ...

Judit Polgár was the No.1 ranked woman chess player in the world for over 25 years—from the age of 13 in 1989 till 2014 when ...

The tense game saw Magnus Carlsen make a pawn blunder in the 23rd move, allowing his opponent to get the advantage.

This was one of those games where nothing worked and every mistake made things worse. From the opening to the final blunder, ...

Carlsen admitted that he knew the third game was over, and that defeat was inevitable, but kept fighting regardless. It turned out to be the prudent choice.

Sometimes I rage-played. I’d make a blunder, lose ELO, and immediately queue up to win it back. It reminded me of a casino, ...