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 ...

Carlsen had no proof, just a feeling. His theory was that somehow Niemann was getting help from a computer. This was before ChatGPT, but even then, computers could easily beat even the best humans by ...

Kirill Shevchenko, a grandmaster who represents Romania, has been accused of getting assistance from a computer in the middle of games. By Victor Mather A top chess player was expelled from an event ...

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

“If you want to know what the future of AI looks like, look at chess. It happened to us first, and it’s going to happen to all of you.” Reading time 13 minutes In May of 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down ...

It’s the story that has rocked chess and shown no sign of abating. The cheating scandal which has engulfed the sport, involving five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, is all anyone is talking about.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training ...