WARNING: This reporting includes disturbing information of a sexual nature. Letters with pages from porn magazines and used condoms have been sent to at least 15 female chess players for over a decade. This troubling news was revealed today by t...
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The World Champion, a film directed by Alexey Sidorov that depicts the dramatic world championship match between GM Anatoly Karpov and GM Viktor Korchnoi in 1978, hits cinemas in Russia on Thursday. While the 1972 "Match of the Century" in Reykj...
The December FIDE rating list officially confirms the meteoric rise of GM Alireza Firouzja, who is the new world number-two player, 52 points behind GM Magnus Carlsen. GM Levon Aronian now represents the U.S. while GM Hikaru Nakamura was removed f...
AlphaZero's learning process is, to some extent, similar to that of humans. A new paper from DeepMind, which includes a contribution from the 14th world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik, provides strong evidence for the existence of human-understan...
IM Levy Rozman, the popular streamer and content creator behind GothamChess, has recently announced the winners for his $100,000 chess scholarship program. In a partnership with ChessKid.com, the scholastic branch of Chess.com, Rozman recently c...
Earlier this week, FIDE, the International Chess Federation, announced a sponsorship for women's chess with Establishment Labs, a company producing and marketing a breast implant product line branded as Motiva®. This is the first-ever corporat...
The Netflix hit series The Queen's Gambit won a total of 11 Emmy Awards, including the top prize for limited series. At Sunday's Primetime Emmy Awards, director Scott Frank received a trophy as well, a week after the series had already clinched ni...
Netflix's 2020 megahit miniseries The Queen's Gambit has garnered 18 Emmy nominations, including best Limited Series and best Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Anya Taylor-Joy's widely acclaimed performance as Beth Harmon. Thomas Brodi...
American chess organizer, international arbiter, and chess writer Carol Jarecki died on Sunday, June 13 at the age of 86 after losing a battle to cancer. An arbiter at world championship matches in New York in 1990 and 1995, Jarecki will be sorely...
The top 50 of the Fighting Chess Index, introduced by Australian grandmaster and economist David Smerdon, has GM Vladimir Kramnik in first place. GM Teimour Radjabov, who was criticized this week for playing quick draws at the Superbet Chess Class...
It looks like the popular Netflix series The Queen's Gambit will be turned into a musical. The production company Level Forward has won the rights to adapt Walter Tevis's 1983 novel for the stage. "It is a privilege for Level Forward to lead the...
The interest in chess from esports organizations continues to grow, as two chess streamers were signed recently. Old school streamer and the host of ChessCoachNet, Frank Johnson, was signed by Premier, and NM James Canty III will be representing N...
ChessKid.com, the scholastic branch of Chess.com, is pleased to announce its first United States national online tournament exclusive for female players. To promote and highlight the continued growth of female scholastic players in the US, Chess...
The Netflix series The Queen's Gambit has won the Golden Globe for best miniseries or television film. Anya Taylor-Joy, who played the main character Beth Harmon, also won the Golden Globe for best actress in a miniseries or television film. ...
Dallas, Texas (December 21) – Meet the dynamic duo taking the online chess world by storm: 24-year-old Alexandra Botez and her 18-year-old sister, Andrea. The pair, known online as the Botez sisters, signed as content creators and streamers ...
The Komodo team has released Komodo 14.1 and a new chess engine dubbed "Dragon." Dragon adds powerful NNUE (Efficiently Updatable Neural Networks) technology to the successful Komodo engine. Komodo is the 2019 World Computer Chess Champion, 2019...
The Queen’s Gambit is a seven-episode series, debuting October 23 on Netflix. Set in the Cold War-era, it is a coming-of-age story that explores the true cost of genius: that of Beth Harmon, a highly talented female chess player. Initially...
Top chess players play at their best between ages 35 and 45, according to a scientific paper published on Monday that discusses performance data based on games of chess world champions and their opponents. Playing strength increases rapidl...
The 1980s musical "Chess," with a storyline set around a Cold War-era chess event and with music by ABBA's Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, is world-famous. Somehow, it was never performed in Moscow—until last Saturday night. T...
Version 12 of the popular open-source chess engine Stockfish was released on Thursday. It is a major update that includes an efficiently updatable neural network and is significantly stronger than earlier versions. According to the official...
In arguably the biggest development in computer chess since AlphaZero was introduced, Stockfish (the strongest traditional chess engine) is absorbing the fledgling Stockfish+NNUE project. Update: see also our news report on the launch of Stockfi...
Regular, over-the-board tournaments are returning as countries are easing their lockdowns. A protocol published by FIDE could provide guidance for organizers and players to safely hold and play an event. Starting from late February/early March 2...
Making an appearance in Lex Fridman's Artificial Intelligence Podcast, DeepMind's David Silver gave lots of insights into the history of AlphaGo and AlphaZero and deep reinforcement learning in general. Today, the finals of the Chess.c...
