Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by actress Anya Taylor-Joy, reads a chess pamphlet in Netflix's miniseries "The Queen Gambit." ...

In many parts of the AI community, people are used to thinking about artificial intelligence as applied to new and modern forms of game theory. For example, some of the most tangible rollouts of AI ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

In the summer of 1924, Palace Square in Leningrad - today St. Petersburg - became the setting for a remarkable human chess ...

Here’s a look at some of the most important and memorable moments in the history of chess. By Daniel Naroditsky Chess at the world championship level can often feel very static. Wilhelm Steinitz, ...

Irina Krush won her seventh US Chess Championship this past weekend in St. Louis. In doing so, she notched her fourth consecutive US title and became without question the best American woman player of ...

Look out, there’s another chess prodigy on the scene. At eight years, six months and 11 days, Ashwath Kaushik made history on Sunday by becoming the youngest player ever to beat a chess grandmaster in ...