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...
A group of young French chess players was quarantined in Murmansk, Russia when one Irish participant of their tournament was tested positive for the coronavirus. After two weeks, the French players were finally able to travel back home. The tour...
Today, half a century ago, one of the greatest chess events of the 20th century started in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Virtually all of the top players in the world participated in this match between the Soviet Union and the Rest of the World. The eve...
The Week In Chess is a household name in the chess world and still the place to find the latest chess games, altogether and nicely sorted, for download. The first issue was published 25 years ago today. Mark Crowther, the publisher of the site, ...
FIDE has launched a survey to research its potential chess market, evaluate the size of the global chess community and assess the value of its sponsorship offering. You can participate. The survey has been created in cooperation with Nielse...
An ancient chess piece kept in a drawer for 55 years and originally bought for £5 was today sold at auction for £735,000 (U.S. $927,062, or 820,232 euro). It is almost certainly one of the famous Lewis Chessmen that date from the late ...
Chess in a Filipino park, chess as a therapy for tough times and as a source for marketing and for cartoons. There are interesting new facts about female participation, and the female GM Harika Dronavalli shares her journey. And have you seen th...
A campaign was launched on Tuesday to have chess included as a sport at the Paris Olympic Games 2024. The official launch took place in Paris, in the presence of FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich. Members of the World Chess Federation and th...
The preliminary findings of a multi-year study across the state of Alabama seem to indicate that chess instruction may improve student performance, especially amongst younger students. The study, conducted by researchers at Tennessee Tech and the ...
The question at hand is not a trick, but it is tough. About a decade before Bobby Fischer made the cover, the inaugural chess player on the cover of Sports Illustrated was 1960s U.S. chess star Lisa Lane. Lisa Lane, the groundbreaker. | Photo: A...
After a month dominated by the world championship, many chess stories remained on the periphery. This edition of "In Other News" tries to bring them back into the light. Skydiving chess Rex Sinquefield stars on HBO Caruana, the guy next door...
Books, movies, podcasts: This edition of In Other News, our collection of smaller chess stories, shows that the game is playing out in many forms: Documentary chronicles all-girls team in New York City New US Chess podcast Carlsson in The Bi...
Three weeks before the start of the FIDE world championship, organizer World Chess launched chess dating app Mates. Billed as a way to find an opponent for a game of chess, the app came with a press release that doesn't shy away from a sexual conn...
It's a good thing the World Chess Hall of Fame keeps its giant chess set on the ground floor. Sure, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and IM Danny Rensch still do their best to cause maximum carnage, but it's usually only those two that end up sweaty and ...
This month's edition of In Other News spans the globe. We have several stories about American chess, including how you can help GM Fabiano Caruana visit the White House, and how GM Hikaru Nakamura rose from the grave. You will also read about wh...
Bye bye chain gang. Hello pawn chains. A new youth offenders program in Alberta, Canada, has an innovative way to get young people back on the right track: chess. Read on for that story and other chess cornucopia in this edition of "In Other New...
Whew. Candidates' took almost a month but is now done. Ditto Shamkir and the U.S. Championships. The Women's World Championship is only one game a day, so how can we quench your insatiable thirst for chess news this next week? Here's 10 che...
The ex-NFL lineman John Urschel mostly wanted his recent retirement news to pass through the media glare quietly and quickly. Recently, he opened up about his reasoning to Sports Illustrated, and then another feature on Huffington Post talked abou...
One of the 2018 world chess championship logos that was revealed earlier this week has caused quite a stir. Described as "pawnographic" and Kama Sutra-like, the image went viral on social media and was reported on by mainstream media all over...
