In the wake of agreeing to a two-week cease-fire on April 7, both the United States and Iran are claiming victory in their war. Each says the same thing: We held out and the other guy blinked first.

A new Armenian coffee shop opened on Feb. 21 this year. Is it in Los Angeles? Watertown? Detroit, Philly, New York?

Japanese electronics giant Sony built the robotic arm it calls Ace and pitted it against professional athletes. Ace proved a ...

Members describe DCTRL – pronounced variously as decentral or decontrol – as Vancouver’s longest-running decentralized tech ...

Checkmate! On Friday, turn-based chess roguelike Gambonanza officially launched on PC via Steam, iOS, and Android. The ...

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

IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals. One of the most infamous episodes in the game, the ‘sex toy’ conspiracy, ...

As she sat down for a match with the world’s No1 chess player Magnus Carlsen, Alua Nurman could not resist asking for a selfie. To the 18-year-old grand master’s delight, Carlsen agreed and leaned ...

Magnus Carlsen (left) and Hans Niemann at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships in 2025, playing each other again three years after the scandal involving the pair Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty ...

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport There really is, it turns out, a true story involving cheating in chess and a ...

Ten seconds left. Ball in LeBron James' hands. With the Milwaukee Bucks clinging to a two-point lead against the Los Angeles Lakers, Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo read the play. Defending James, ...