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The 20-year-old from Chennai has written another special chapter in the history of Indian chess' golden generation.

This is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a memory of shocking precision; a special intuition for geometry; a gift for logic ...

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NEW DELHI: When Grandmaster (GM) Gukesh Dommaraju paused in the middle of the Prague Masters to apologise to fans, the moment felt unusually raw and emotional.“I really appreciate all the fans coming ...

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Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...

In recent years, online chess competitors have relied more and more on computer engines to help them plan moves. "It is increasingly difficult for strong players to find wins, even against a ...

What starts as a polite, thoughtful game quickly turns into a race against time. The amateur plays solid chess, asks good questions, and even earns a few compliments — but pressure doesn’t announce ...

US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky suffered cardiac issues after taking kratom and meth, according to a detailed medical examiner’s report that ruled the 29-year-old’s death an accident. Friends ...

The World Chess Federation’s Ethics and Disciplinary Commission ruled that Iran’s women’s team deliberately boycotted its match against Israel at the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest on September 22, ...

In the early years of computational physics, starting during the Second World War, the discipline and its practitioners did not yet have a name. Iulia Georgescu tells the story of these forgotten ...