At 20, D Gukesh is carrying a burden few in chess ever faced -- the weight of being a world champion. Yet with a title defence looming, the Indian Grandmaster sees those expectations not merely as ...

Magnus Carlsen walked off a Norwegian chess interview mid-sentence to blast the NBA, and the moment is spreading fast.

Global chess learning platforms are increasingly expanding into Africa as demand rises for structured online chess education and youth development tools.

In Oslo, the world's best grandmasters were asked about boredom, table-slamming and the weight of being world champion.

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Complex strategic decisions may be better when made with less thinking time, a study suggests. Researchers, including those from the Ludwig Maximilian Univ ...

The new generation of chess bots eliminates jarring, inhuman moves, extends the rating ladder from true beginner to beyond ...

In chess, faster decisions are on average of higher quality. This is the conclusion of a study that has just been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team of ...

Faster decisions in professional chess yield higher quality results, showing that overthinking hinders intuitive success.

Chess, a sport known for enhancing mental health by cultivating mindfulness, improving cognitive function, and building emotional resilience—acting as both a mental workout and a mediated exercise—was ...

American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura has stirred debate in the chess world with sharp criticism of the online circuit and accused it of devaluing competitions by tying low‑prize events to high‑stakes ...