Former world champion Viswanathan Anand deep in a game and (below) making some moves with his son India’s first grand master and former World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand has penned an ...

At age 9, I witnessed a curious phenomenon. As a summer camper bunking with 40 other boys, only one of whom initially played chess, I explained the rules to one or two of the others. Within several ...

It’s no secret that computers can smoke humans at chess. And now, as if to further mock our mere organic forms, scientists say they’ve created a computer made out of DNA that can play the board game — ...

Discover the fascinating story behind the oldest chess problem ever recorded and the tragic tale of its mysterious creator. A deep dive into chess history and one of its earliest puzzles.

Humans are losing. Last week artificial intelligence, for the first time in history, secured a definitive victory over a grandmaster Go player. While chess playing humans were outpaced by computer ...