A ten-year-old loses a chess game and walks away with the idea that will win him a Nobel. The lesson isn't about chess — it's ...

In chess, faster decisions are on average of higher quality. This is the conclusion of a study that has just been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team of ...

You’re reading The Sporting Scene, Louisa Thomas’s weekly look at the world of sports. When Gukesh Dommaraju was a small child growing up in Chennai, India, his parents wanted him to be an athlete.

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“Untold,” a sports documentary series, recounts a notorious match between two grandmasters and the cheating accusations that rocked the chess world and beyond. By Dylan Loeb McClain Dylan Loeb McClain ...

As someone who has alarmed multiple subway cars by swearing loudly at my telephone on one of the rare occasions I’ve been able to beat it on easy mode, trust me when I say I am very familiar with the ...

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Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a challenge. Although playing chess on a computer against an AI has been a thing ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — What started as a strange smell turned into a shocking discovery for a Knoxville man after he opened the hood of his SUV and found a large, exotic snake coiled inside the engine ...

Central Florida Zoo evacuated after bomb threat, officials say threat not credible The Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens was evacuated Sunday afternoon after officials say the facility received ...

Duolingo has been through a lot of changes over the past few years. What was once solely a language-learning app has grown into a social media marketing machine, a destination for math and music ...