On the face of it, playing chess and competing in the NBA couldn’t be further apart. One requires monk-like levels of silent concentration – particularly in classical chess – while the other demands ...

When the potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis makes its breathtakingly close flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029, more than 2 billion people across Africa and Western Europe will be able to watch ...

Chess.com discloses June 2025 cyberattack which exposed data of 4,541 users Hackers exploited a vulnerable third-party file transfer tool; core systems weren’t breached No logins or payment data were ...

Chess.com has disclosed a data breach after threat actors gained unauthorized access to a third-party file transfer application used by the platform. The incident occurred in June 2025, with the ...

Aarini Lahoty, a five-year-old chess prodigy from Delhi, has achieved a remarkable feat by earning FIDE ratings in classical, rapid, and blitz chess formats. She is the youngest girl globally to ...

Officials of the National Chess Federation of the Philippines with the Provincial Government of Misamis Occidental, led by Governor Henry S. Oaminal (bottom row, third from left) during the signing of ...

In just 24 hours after registration opened, more than 100 chess players from 23 different countries signed up to compete in the Jerusalem Open, an international rapid chess tournament set to take ...

In the mid-6th century, a remarkable diplomatic encounter is believed to have happened between Shah Khosrow I Anushirvan (ruler of the Sassanid Persian Empire) and an Indian envoy who was a visitor at ...

Chess legends Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov are set to reignite their historic rivalry in St. Louis this October, headlining the Clutch Chess series. Adding to the excitement, current world ...

A 10-year-old girl has defeated a chess grandmaster, becoming the youngest female chess player to do so. British junior Bodhana Sivanandan beat 60-year-old grandmaster Peter Wells in the last round of ...

Despite being over 500 years old at this point, chess has more than endured the test of time. Even now, new stratagems are being developed as the next generation of players continues to plumb its near ...

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has beaten Elon Musk's Grok in the final of a tournament to crown the best artificial intelligence (AI) chess player. Historically, tech companies have often used chess to assess ...