In the wake of agreeing to a two-week cease-fire on April 7, both the United States and Iran are claiming victory in their war. Each says the same thing: We held out and the other guy blinked first.

Japanese electronics giant Sony built the robotic arm it calls Ace and pitted it against professional athletes. Ace proved a ...

Checkmate! On Friday, turn-based chess roguelike Gambonanza officially launched on PC via Steam, iOS, and Android. The ...

A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

What looked like a normal chess game suddenly swung on a single decision. One move changed the balance, opened the position, and left the rest of the game feeling almost inevitable. That is what makes ...

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess in 2022—which spiraled out of control with allegations of a player using ...

As she sat down for a match with the world’s No1 chess player Magnus Carlsen, Alua Nurman could not resist asking for a selfie. To the 18-year-old grand master’s delight, Carlsen agreed and leaned ...

Magnus Carlsen (left) and Hans Niemann at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships in 2025, playing each other again three years after the scandal involving the pair Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty ...

Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess, author Ben Mezrich explores every angle of the match where Niemann improbably beat Carlsen, leading Carlsen to imply that Niemann had ...

Footage shows awkward moment at Grenke festival, where electronic devices are banned to prevent players from cheating James Rothwell is The Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent. He joined in 2014 and has ...

It was the anal bead theory that caused a global sensation. Now, a new Netflix film tells the tale of two grandmasters, one scandal – and a whole lot of bad blood Chess Mates (Netflix, Tuesday) has an ...

IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals. One of the most infamous episodes in the game, the ‘sex toy’ conspiracy, ...