Carlsen had no proof, just a feeling. His theory was that somehow Niemann was getting help from a computer. This was before ChatGPT, but even then, computers could easily beat even the best humans by ...

In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician ...

Untold,” a sports documentary series, recounts a notorious match between two grandmasters and the cheating accusations that ...

Chess-Turkey's Erdogmus, 14, set to become youngest 'super grandmaster' Turkey's 14‑year‑old Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus is set to surpass the 2,700 rating mark, a level ‌unofficially known as "super ...

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess ...

A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

Joint-leader R Vaishali (7 points) needs to beat last edition’s winner Tan Zhongyi in the 13th and penultimate round on ...

ChatGPT might be great for responding to emails or quick-drafting a document, but it's not quite ready to take on the world's chess prodigies—or indeed, chess-playing consoles from 50 years ago. In a ...

The world changed on February 10, 1996, when a computer called Deep Blue beat chess champion Garry Kasparov. It may have changed last Sunday again in Beijing, when a human-shaped robot ran a ...

The Uzbek 20-year-old won first prize unbeaten but his girlfriend, Bibisara Assaubayeva, finished second to the lowest seed in the Women’s Candidates ...

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 ...

For more than a decade, the Sinquefield Cup has been a key stop on the Grand Chess Tour, bringing together some of the ...