Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

In a world-first for national-level sports, Han Binbin, a player with cerebral palsy, competed in a Chinese chess tournament ...

NEW DELHI – A 10-year-old chess prodigy from London has etched her name into history, becoming the youngest female player ever to defeat a grandmaster. Bodhana Sivanandan, just 10 years and five ...

Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...

Sitting at his computer in Copenhagen in 2004, he would challenge players from all over the world on one of the first ...

Marc Olsen was just 18 when he started winning money at backgammon. Sitting at his computer in Copenhagen in 2004, he would ...

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