WITH the new year always comes a sense of wanting to do or try something new. Whether it is to reach a goal, bring some joy ...

American grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky’s death exposed an online culture at odds with the game’s staid reputation.

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces ...

On 26 November 1844, two chess teams faced off while separated by 60 kilometers, as the Washington Chess Club played a team in Baltimore using the newly built electrical telegraph. Three consulting ...

Diving chess is played at the bottom of a swimming pool, using a chessboard with magnetic chess pieces. The players dive ...

You may have only recently heard about Demis Hassabis. He's been named one of Time magazine's "AI architects," won a Nobel Prize for using the technology to predict protein folding and runs Google's ...

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha has become the youngest player in chess history to earn an official FIDE rating at the age of three years, seven months and 20 days. Born in 2022, Sarwagya — from Sagar in the ...

Daniel Naroditsky at the FIDE World Rapid Championship on Dec. 28, 2024 in New York, NY.Lennart Ootes—Getty Images In July, the American grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky played a speed chess game against ...

(From left) Diane Keaton, Pope Francis, Roberta Flack and Robert Redford were among the notable people who passed away in ...

Norway's Carlsen claims sixth world rapid chess title in Qatar Magnus Carlsen won his sixth world rapid championship title at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in Qatar on Sunday.

A selection of The Washington Post’s favorite artwork in 2025, showcasing pieces from staff illustrators and artists around ...

Fresh from receiving the Game of the Year award at The Game Awards 2025, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been stripped of two awards from the Indie Game Awards after its use of generative AI hit the ...