Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists of the Complexity Science Hub and the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi (CREF) studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these ...

In this video, we explore chess openings, covering a range of strategies from bad openings to the best openings. Timeline: ...

Back in the early 1900s, chess players thought they had it all figured out. The rules were simple: grab the center with your pawns first (e4, d4), then develop your pieces. Then along came rebels like ...

This unconventional path, rejected by purists and loved by eccentrics, has origins dating back to the nineteenth century but ...

Some of the best chess players have descended upon Goa for the FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, but world No 1 Magnus Carlsen is ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

A Reddit post led to strangers meeting for chess and starting a social club in Pacific Beach for those who enjoy playing ...

Oliver Roeder is a journalist, author and games player. He is a former senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, where he covered the World Chess Championship and other gaming pursuits. The following is ...

Daniel Naroditsky, the American chess grandmaster and streamer who cultivated the game’s digital renaissance, has died aged ...

Largely self-taught, he became a grandmaster in his 20s and was later a founder of Chess Informant, which revolutionized how people studied the game. By Dylan Loeb McClain Aleksandar Matanovic, a ...