It’s been two decades since Judit Polgar shattered chess’ glass ceiling by entering the world’s top 10 ranks. It’s a feat so remarkable that no female player has come close to repeating it since. But ...

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.

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

The former US women’s champion Jennifer Shahade changed her life and her sport when she made allegations against a grandmaster. Now, she tells Donald McRae, she has turned her hand to writing and poke ...

Grand Chess Tour (GCT), a leading global circuit of international chess tournaments featuring the world's best players, announced today the players selected as wildcards for the first three ...

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 ...

AI doomsters believe that AI will quickly become better at “everything.” That may not be true, but what if it is? What does that mean most immediately for the arts, where AI slop is already permeating ...

Grandmaster Garry Kasparov compares chess to “mental torture” — a statement that at first glance seems overdramatized for a leisure activity enjoyed by seniors at the local park — but to budding ...

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 ...