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When the chess world suspects someone of having cheated in a tournament, Ken Regan is the expert who gets the call. Using a database of tens of thousands of top-level games, Kenneth Regan, himself an ...

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French mathematician Blaise Pascal famously called the game of chess “the gymnasium of the mind.” Slightly less famously, H.G. Wells called it “a curse upon a man.” In an 1897 essay, the science ...

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Vaishali Rameshbabu’s love for watching cartoons on TV prompted her parents to enroll her in after-school chess lessons as a healthy diversion. Within six months, they were looking for a coach. Her ...

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The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest player in history. However, it cannot replace him. These super-strong platforms ...