Discover the top 10 chess players in the world as per the April 2025 FIDE rankings, featuring Magnus Carlsen, Gukesh D, and ...

Host Sue Perkins does her best to give it "warm, 'Bake-Off' vibes" and the 12 contestants have clearly been chosen for their dramatic backstories, but the show struggles to capitalise on the surge of ...

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While supercomputers—most famously IBM’s Deep Blue —have long surpassed the world’s best human chess players, generative AI ...

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Having started out as a fantasy chess project, TakeTakeTake and its app have brought on board many of the biggest names in ...

In chess, impatience leads to blunders. The best players wait for the right moment ... Grandmasters know when to abandon a failing strategy and adapt. In life, rigid thinking can lead to missed ...

Coming up with new approaches and counters to those approaches is part of the fabric of the game.

Viswanathan Anand showed no mercy as he dismissed Magnus Carlsen’s name in a hurry while picking his favourite chess player ...

If the predictions from drivers and race strategists are correct, this weekend’s 65-lap IndyCar Grand Prix at The Thermal ...