The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

Google Doodle for Monday November 25 is ‘Celebrating Chess’ It features a beautiful graphic design inspired by the popular game. The doodle comes as the World Chess Championship is about to start.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is an ardent chess fan and he continues to prove his lobe for the the game. Having ...

Later today, in Singapore, defending chess champion Ding Liren will face off against India's Gukesh Dommaraju in the first of 14 games of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2024. The Title Sponsor of ...

Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind. As a child, Hassabis became a chess champion, competing in international tournaments. Hassabis credits chess with leading to an interest in programming ...

On 26 November 1844, two chess teams faced off while separated by 60 kilometers, as the Washington Chess Club played a team in Baltimore using the newly built electrical telegraph. Three consulting ...

Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In the ...