As machines outplay humans in pursuits that used to seem quintessentially human, Harry de Quetteville looks at where all this technology is leading us It was in 1996 when IBM’s Deep Blue beat then ...

It was nostalgic and entertaining as Viswanathan Anand lost 11-13 to Garry Kasparov in an exhibition event (Clutch Chess: The Legends) at St Louis. It was a one-sided affair as the Russian GM eased ...

It’s been just over a month since a chess documentary on Judit Polgar’s life and her career, The Queen of Chess, was released on Netflix. Tracing the career of one of the greatest players in chess ...

A Dutchman, he was considered the best player outside the Soviet Union for two decades, although he described himself as “lazy” and was open about using alcohol and drugs early on.

THE GRANDMASTER Willie Mullins is ready to dominate the Festival . . . again. When you talk chess you might think of the world’s best players like Garry Kasparov or Magnus Carlsen, but in terms of ...

Gukesh Dommaraju paused in the middle of the Prague Masters to apologise to fans, the moment felt unusually raw and e.

There are only 22 games left in the Raptors' regular season. Currently the Raptors sit at the five seed and are 3.5 games ...

In Rory Kennedy’s documentary, Queen of Chess, Judit Polgár’s ascent to the top 10 rewrites the rules of a game long guarded by male authority ...

Twenty-nine years ago, IBM's computer Deep Blue beat the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It has since become clear that computers are superior to humans at the Game of Kings. Yet despite ...

And the Raptors were just as defensively stout as the Spurs. The Spurs also couldn’t find anything at the rim. The Spurs also ...

Jan Timman, the chess grandmaster who has died aged 74, was one of the world’s finest players from the 1970s through to the ...

The world No 1 won his 21st global title by defeating his old rival Fabiano Caruana in Freestyle chess at Weissenhaus in Germany ...