If you've ever been to the Starbucks on Padre Island, you may have seen Phil Shaw, also known as "the Island Chess Man." In ...

Demis Hassabis, a childhood chess prodigy, said his experience with the game afforded him his first brush with AI. He was ...

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis's AI journey had an unexpected start: his early mastery of chess. Years before Hassabis ...

Soviet chess world champion Boris Spassky has died at age 88. It was announced by the Russian Chess Federation that regretted the event as a “great loss for Russia”. Spassky held the title of ...

A gesture delivered by George Russell to his former Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton has been unearthed from a clip during Formula 1’s pre-season testing in Bahrain last week. The 27-year-old ...

About 50 elementary school students strategized in order to yell out “checkmate” in the chess championship at Sargent ...

The youngest chess world champion is also the youngest to become world No. 1. The FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs: World Chess Federation) ratings were officially introduced in 1971. Ever ...

Only one Indian chess player has become World World No. 1. India has undoubtedly become the new global hub in chess. The recent spree of laurels, including the twin gold medals won by the Indian Men’s ...

(AP Photo/J. Walter Green, File) 1 of 5 Bobby Fischer, right, and Boris Spassky play their last game together in Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug. 31, 1972. (AP Photo/J. Walter Green, File) Reigning chess ...

Boris Spassky, the 10th world champion in the history of chess, breathed his last in Moscow on Thursday ... skipped the opening ceremony, forced game 1 of the world championship to be deferred, ...

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