Chess has become massively more popular in South Africa in recent years. The developing chess culture in South Africa could help create future stars of the sport. Chess also has a range of cognitive ...

But there are no goals, no tackles and no final whistle – just the quiet tap of pieces on a board as the primary school chess tournament gets under way. Niamh Rochford, a third-class student ...

A Houston-area company has just inked a massive, $1 billion deal to become the next big weight-loss medication maker. The timeline for the company to begin receiving payments is dependent on the ...

I learned a new phrase the other day: “digital dementia.” It’s not an actual health condition — not yet, at least — but a ...

Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi will face each other in the Women’s WCC after seven years. The FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship 2025 is set to be one of the most anticipated events in women’s chess, ...

A moment of infamy has airbrushed the past of a stand-up comic well-known for his irreverent and dark humour but not for his contribution to Indian chess. If it was Queen’s Gambit on Netflix that saw ...

The champions of Chess in Slums, the non-governmental organisation founded by chess master Tunde Onakoya to help children from underprivileged backgrounds discover and develop a love for chess ...

Elon Musk shrugged off defeat in the Wisconsin state Supreme Court race by arguing he’d actually secured “a positional gain.” Yet, in the hours following Schimel’s defeat to liberal Susan Crawford, ...

Hungarian chess player Judit Polgár is widely considered to be the best female in the game. Polgár is the youngest person to earn the title of Grandmaster, achieving the status at only 15 years old.

Stockfish is a free and strong UCI chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1 that analyzes chess positions and computes the optimal moves. Stockfish does not include a graphical user interface (GUI) that ...