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Thirty years ago from February 10-17, 1996, in Philadelphia, USA, world chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated the supercomputer Deep Blue 4-2 in a six-game match. The following year, in May 1997, the ...

Chess, like other sports, has a problem of plenty when it comes to the number of high-profile events across the year. So much so that R Praggnanandhaa and other top players in the world have issued an ...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen leads a star-studded field at the inaugural FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship. The FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship 2026 is set to be one of the most exciting ...

The death of Daniel Naroditsky exposed the conflicts between the game’s traditional wing and its many online stars. The death of Daniel Naroditsky exposed the conflicts between the game’s traditional ...

Chess fans were left stunned after learning that YouTuber GothamChess’s book ‘How to Win at Chess’ won’t be allowed in a physical or digital copy at the Speed Chess Championship Finals. The Speed ...

Several months ago, I received a text from my friend Giulia with news that every former musical theater nerd yearns to hear: she had an extra ticket to see a Broadway show. Namely, Chess: The Musical, ...

It was 1972 when Bobby Fischer, the American chess prodigy, was sweeping the nation with “Fischer fever.” It reached a high pitch that September when he defeated the Soviet world champion Boris ...

Chess Battle is a straightforward chess game that features a player versus computer game mode, player versus player modes, and puzzle modes which allow the player to practice in preset situations ...

But last weekend, it lost a game of chess. Not to a human grandmaster or even to some other fancy AI. It lost to an Atari 2600 that first appeared in the 1970s and can only calculate one or two chess ...

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