Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these similarities, they developed a new classification method which can complement ...

There’s a moment in many great games where nothing flashy happens. A pawn is moved. A bishop steps back. A rook shuffles slightly. But if you ask yourself the question: What was the opponent ...

Gukesh Dommaraju and Divya Deshmukh, Indian chess prodigies, faced off at the FIDE Grand Swiss in Uzbekistan. Their first classical format encounter e ...

Editor’s note: David R. Sands is off on assignment this week. The following is a reprint of a column that ran on Jan. 17, 2012. The most romantic of chess openings doesn’t get many dates these days. A ...

Divya Deshmukh played fearlessly in her opening game of the FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 chess tournament. However, what made the ...

The inaugural Fujairah Global Chess Championship closed in dramatic fashion, as 18-year-old Indian Grandmaster Pranav ...

Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists of the Complexity Science Hub and the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi (CREF) studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these ...