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 ...

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

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

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest ...

There was a point back in the mid-2000s when Bournemouth earned a certain singular, and highly unlikely, national title.

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

Thirty years ago from February 10-17, 1996, in Philadelphia, USA, world chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated the supercomputer Deep Blue 4-2 in a six-game match. The following year, in May 1997, the ...

Fabiano Caruana, a top contender in the upcoming Candidates tournament, faces scrutiny over his nerve management despite his ...

Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess, author Ben Mezrich explores every angle of the match where Niemann ...

A machine can “think,” but can it experience feelings and self-awareness?

Elite chess players are abandoning engine-approved strategies in favor of wild, hard-to-predict moves designed to break ...

Demis Hassabis has been pondering what humans are supposed to do in the face of machine superintelligence for his entire life ...