On Tuesday's episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Lea Michele, along with the Broadway cast and orchestra of Chess, took the stage for a performance of 'Nobody's Side' from the hit revival.

Think chess is just for geniuses? Well, think again. Thanks to a social media explosion, millions of people are picking up a chessboard for the first time. In this week’s edition of Teach Me ...

While beating an AI at a board game may seem relatively trivial, it can help us identify failure modes of the AI, or ways in which we can improve their training to avoid having them develop these ...

Fifteen-year-old P. Akilesh has been playing chess since he was in primary school and has taken part in many competitions ...

Shreyas became Britain's youngest Chess Grandmaster at the age of 15 In a silent school hall on the Isle of Wight the air is thick with tension. Faces twitch nervously, feet shake vigorously under ...

In a silent school hall on the Isle of Wight the air is thick with tension. Faces twitch nervously, feet shake vigorously under tables, and several heads are clasped in hands. Every so often a chess ...

It’s been nearly 30 years since chess champion Garry Kasparov lost to IBM’s Deep Blue, marking the first time a reigning ...

South Africa’s financial education space just levelled up. Old Mutual has officially launched Capital Gambit Chess, a first-of-its-kind strategic chess-inspired game that teaches players how money, ...

I want to ask you a question: Do you think the choices you make today will have any impact on your future? If we stop to think about it, most of us would say, “Yes, of course.” But we don’t actually ...

Julia Gale is one of the co-founders of Beers by the Bay Chess & Social, a social club started with co-founders Mark Laturno and Aidan Ryan in 2024. It works just like the name says—they meet up each ...

For a game whose rules can be taught to a small child, chess is bewilderingly complicated—there are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe, and despite the ...