When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats
When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.
Warriors forward pans current NBA, while Oakland's Damian Lillard and Santa Clara's Jalen Williams enjoy coming back to Bay Area
Warriors forward pans current NBA, while Oakland’s Damian Lillard and Santa Clara’s Jalen Williams enjoy coming back to Bay ...
Bored with chess, world’s top player wants to remake the game
Two prominent voices want chess to change. Carlsen, the 34-year-old Norwegian grand master and five-time world champion who ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...
Team Liquid Signs Magnus Carlsen to Form Chess Esports Superteam
Team Liquid is making the ultimate power move into the world of professional chess, doubling down on top talent by signing multi-time world champion Magnus Carl ...
Chess and the dispute over 'freestyle'
A row is brewing in the world of chess – at the center of it are a disgruntled world federation and a chess variant – with ...
Chess Esports is Back! Team Liquid Signs Number 2 Ranked Player
Following a successful first year in 2024, which saw the likes of Street Fighter, Tekken, and Fortnite contested for prize pools of over $1million, the Esports ...
The birth of Freestyle Chess: How Magnus Carlsen's 'perfect tournament' came into being
Freestyle Chess, created by German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner and endorsed by Magnus Carlsen, introduces excitement ...
Meet the Central Texas 10-year-old who will beat you at chess, even if you’re really good
Advik Manchanda, a 10-year-old chess prodigy from Cedar Park, Texas, recently became the only Texan to win in the 2024 K-12 ...
NFL players are turning to an unlikely hobby to improve their game: Chess
If you scrunch your eyes up just as an offensive line sets for a play, the outlines of the players look like chess pieces being moved around the board by some invisible hand. Some run in the straight ...