Elite chess players are abandoning engine-approved strategies in favor of wild, hard-to-predict moves designed to break ...

Ever since he beat the greatest chess player who ever lived, Hans Niemann has been called a cheat. The 19-year-old’s surprising victory over Magnus Carlsen in St. Louis on September 4 led to ...

The Uzbek with a staggering 5.5/6 reckoned he was winning as the match entered the endgame, but the computer showed a likely ...

The chess world is currently consumed by a drama as lurid and compelling, in its way, as the “Don’t Worry Darling” fracas. Involving implications of cheating at the highest levels of play, the feud ...