In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess in 2022—which spiraled out of control with allegations of a player using ...

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...

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Ever since the chess world went into collective panic over allegations of cheating among super-grandmasters back in 2022, the game has been roiled by rampant paranoia. Tournaments have scaled up ...

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 modern era of cheating in chess began on a Thursday in July 1993, when a man with shoulder-length dreadlocks walked into the World Open tournament in Philadelphia and registered as John von ...

Chess may be the Game of Kings, but royalty could give way to machinery in the years to come. A recent study has found that artificial intelligence, when pitted in a tight game of chess, often resorts ...

Palisade Research recently detailed a ChatGPT experiment in which a reasoning model was told to play chess against a more powerful opponent and win. Rather than attempt to beat the stronger opponent, ...

Hikaru Nakamura plays chess like he talks — at a hundred miles an hour. The 35-year-old grandmaster has been the top ranked US player for over a decade and livestreams rapid fire games of online blitz ...

A new study says many AI models will cheat when playing a game of chess. Researchers pitted the AI against Stockfish, a ...