‘Jeopardy!’: Meet Greg Shahade, Polyamorous Chess Master Who Ended Jamie Ding’s 31-Game Streak

Jamie Ding has faced off against comic book writers, a The Chase competitor, attorneys, and more, but he hasn’t been ...
The New Yorker

After Magnus Carlsen, Chess Has Entered a New Age

A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh ...

A Day in the Life of New York City’s Young Chess Stars

Children from New York schools are consistently winning national chess championships, and programs dedicated to teaching ...
KWCH

Helping Hand: Mentors and Masters program teaches Wichita kids life skills through chess

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A Wichita organization is using chess to teach young children life skills. Students at Holy Savior Catholic Academy are mastering chess through the Mentors and Masters Youth ...
ExtremeTech

Sony's New Playerbase Program Scans PlayStation Fans Into Games

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TweakTown

Sony to put fans in first-party PlayStation games as part of new Playerbase program

PlayStation fans will soon have the chance to appear in actual games. It's part of Sony's new program, The Playerbase, which uses advanced Sony capture technology to take the likenesses of real-life ...
Hosted on MSN

1 move turned this chess game upside down

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 ...
The New York Times

Netflix’s Chess Mates: What we learned from the documentary on the scandal that rocked chess

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 ...
dakotanewsnow

Someone You Should Know: Passing the game of chess along

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - David Kerkhove has played chess for more than fifty years. Starting as a school kid in Sioux Falls. “Well, I met somebody at Patrick Henry who played, although my ...
The Motley Fool

Why Palantir's New Program of Record With the Pentagon Could Be a Game Changer

Palantir's Maven Smart System uses machine learning to analyze data streams from satellites, drones, and radar. It is used by the U.S. military to improve intelligence analysis for high-stakes ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

San Diego Chess & Social expands to Encinitas for weekly game meeting

San Diego Chess & Social, a beloved Pacific Beach based game group, is moving up the coast. With plans to launch a new weekly gathering at Modern Times Beer in Encinitas beginning April 8, the group ...
CounterPunch

Yes, Iran is Playing Chess — But Only After Rewriting the Rules of the Game

The origins of chess are contested, but few dispute that while the game began in India, it was the Sassanian Persian Empire that refined it into a recognizable strategic system. It was Persia that ...