The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...
T his is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a ...
Chess players now get scanned to check for electrical devices. But no one is entirely sure these methods are watertight ...
Humanoid built by smartphone maker Honor outruns humans in half-marathon only a year after six out of 21 manage to finish ...
Opinion

Robots are coming

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 ...
From its origins to its cultural influence today, this is how IBM helped shape America as one of the nation’s most iconic ...
A decade ago, Hassabis's lifelong enduring love of play and AI led to AlphaGo beating the world's deepest board game. The ...
China's chess grandmaster Wei Yi finished fourth in his debut at the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, an achievement that ...
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 ...
It may look like a cute little dolphin-themed toy, but the Flipper Zero is a surprisingly powerful learning tool for hacking.
In the Netflix film, Magnus Carlsen does not say sorry for accusing Hans Niemann of cheating without any evidence ...
Chennai Grand Masters is an elite-level annual closed tournament held every year in what is widely considered the chess ...