We know that chess has that, and billiards has that. Ping-pong has that, too. Every game has a connection to how we conceive nature and landscape, how we order and we structure reality. In the case of ...

As Central Asia becomes a stage for Russian and Chinese rivalry, their political influence and economic investments reshape the region’s dynamics One of the hallmarks of the 21st-century international ...

They did it with baking. They did it with sewing. They did it with pottery. Can they do it with chess? By adding enough double entendres, excitable co-presenters and ludicrously overstated stakes ...

Some AI will even attempt to cheat their way out of losing in games of chess. This poor sportsmanship is documented in a preprint study from Palisade Research, an organization focused on risk ...

On that note, let’s take a look at the top five male chess players who have spent the longest period as World No. 1. Veselin Topalov is the only player who crossed the age of 30 when he became number ...