Children from New York schools are consistently winning national chess championships, and programs dedicated to teaching young people the game are booming. Ayden Spellman, 11, is one of the top young ...

Large language models (LLMs) are bad at chess. And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not because they push me to ...

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport There really is, it turns out, a true story involving cheating in chess and a ...

IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals. One of the most infamous episodes in the game, the ‘sex toy’ conspiracy, ...

The use of artificial intelligence in a medium like video games is seen as a double-edged sword. And although AI has been used for many years in more procedural, generative contexts, its current ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

The vibe around the Epic Games Store is that people love it for the free stuff but don’t use it for much else. That’s an accurate read according to Bloomberg, which recently outlined a pattern of half ...