A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When most people think of chess, they picture elderly gentlemen hunched over boards in the park, contemplating their next move in peaceful quiet. While this ...

This post was written with Nada Saaidia and David J. Grüning. Chess is mental torture. — Garry Kasparov Why play chess if it is torture, as Kasparov testified? One view is that chess is a social trap ...

A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, as they compete in an era defined by computers.

I’m embarrassed to admit this in my mid-forties, but I’ve never understood chess well enough to play a full game. My son and daughter both learned how to play in elementary school. I was glad they had ...