Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told ...

Back in February, the all-time chess great Magnus Carlsen appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to talk about his love of the game—as well as the high-pitched moments of chess-world drama, like ...

That's why I was excited when my editor asked me if I wanted to review Bryght Labs' ChessUp 2, a smart chess board that combines the tactility of an in-person game with the ability to play with ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told ...

A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old chess champion. Ding Liren, top right, and Gukesh Dommaraju, top left, are seen during Game 1 of ...

When booting the game up, I was staring down 12 different matches of chess on my screen, but you can also click anywhere on the map to see what everyone else is doing. Some areas of One Million ...

In chess, we normally start with a handshake, here you just wave,” said Igor Khmelnitsky, an international chess master.

Upstate students as young as three years old are learning to play chess through musical games, as well as songs and dances.

Reaching the status of chess grandmaster, the game’s highest title, is pretty rare. But not at Trumbull College, where two current Yale students share the honor. Mar 19, 2025 10 min read By Jim ...

A former chess coach says a member of the Taliban vice squad told him: "Playing chess is forbidden. Buying a chess set is forbidden. Even watching it — is forbidden." Why was the game banned?

The ancient game of chess is one steeped in tradition, with a history dating back centuries. It was once a game purely of endurance, a test of patience with titanic battles often taking days to ...

With her, he expresses his love-hate relationship with chess without inhibition: I was playing really well for a while, I mean, really well. But I’m not able to play like that anymore. I don’t know ...