Zelko Odorcic is a celebrity at Knightcap Chess Club. When he walks into Soho House Toronto one Friday night in August, a dozen people half his age greet him as if he’s a returning hero. His tucked-in ...

Twice a week, players gather for free games in Rittenhouse Square, where a club that started with one chessboard has grown into a community. Members of the Rittenhouse Chess Club play chess during ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Elon Musk is looking for a checkmate in his latest online feud. It began on Thursday, when the billionaire wrote that ...

"The actual number of moves that are not utterly stupid in chess is tiny and chess will be fully solved one day," Elon Musk tweeted on his own website, X, on Sep. 3. The bold prediction got the ...

Chess.com’s Albert Cheng says AI helped get Gambit off the ground with just a two-person team. Chess.com’s Albert Cheng says AI helped get Gambit off the ground with just a two-person team. is a news ...

For high-school seniors across the country, May 1 is the denouement of a college-admissions chess game that has become more complicated than ever. Friday—the deadline for students to tell colleges ...

If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, Missouri, home of the World Chess Hall of Fame, the next best thing might be ...

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.

Over the weekend, we reported that the candidates for a five-game 2026 package of standalone games included Netflix, YouTube, and Fox. The apparent winner is YouTube. Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office ...

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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 ...

I want to ask you a question: Do you think the choices you make today will have any impact on your future? If we stop to think about it, most of us would say, “Yes, of course.” But we don’t actually ...