AI has mastered chess, so humans are changing the rules of the game

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest ...
BBC

The women bringing chess into the 21st Century - with 'bullet' matches and viral videos

During Covid, Nemo Zhou was "losing [her] mind" locked down at home and thought it would be nice to make some money. So she started streaming chess - and now it's turned into a career. A woman ...
Popular Science

Man builds electrified chessboard that shocks players for bad moves

🛍️ Amazon Big Spring Sale: 100+ editor-approved deals worth buying right now 🛍️ By Andrew Paul Published Feb 26, 2026 2:28 PM EST Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred ...
Reuters

Chess-Dutch chess grandmaster Timman, 'the best of the West', dies at age 74

AMSTERDAM, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Dutch chess grandmaster Jan Timman, known as "the best of the West" in a time when chess was dominated by players from the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 74, the ...
Digital Trends

Unity will soon let you create casual games using simple text prompts

Making a video game usually means learning to code, working with complex game engines, and spending hours piecing everything together. That is true even for simple casual games. Many aspiring ...
TweakTown

Unity AI will let you create 'full casual games' with text prompts and no coding experience

TL;DR: Unity's upgraded AI, launching in beta at GDC, enables developers to create full casual games using natural language prompts without coding. Leveraging advanced models from OpenAI and Meta, ...
Psychology Today

The Chess Game of Life: Why Every Move Matters

I want to ask you a question: Do you think the choices you make today will have any impact on your future? If we stop to think about it, most of us would say, “Yes, of course.” But we don’t actually ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

She’d love to see more women play chess, and maybe join her for a game over a beer

Julia Gale is one of the co-founders of Beers by the Bay Chess & Social, a social club started with co-founders Mark Laturno and Aidan Ryan in 2024. It works just like the name says—they meet up each ...
People

Chess Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky's Cause of Death at 29 Revealed

The Charlotte Chess Center announced the news of the prolific player's death with a social media post on Oct. 20 Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She covers influencers ...
news10nbc

Chess on ice: Inside the strategic and social game of curling

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Curling enthusiasts in Rochester are feeling the excitement as the Winter Olympics bring renewed interest to the sport. News10NBC’s Emily Putnam visited the Rochester Curling Club to ...
Game Rant

Best Games That Let You Create A Superhero

Mark Sammut grew up on the PlayStation 1 and has been playing games ever since, although he is no longer limited to just Sony consoles. Be it JRPGs, shooters, platformers, or hack and slash games, ...
Gizmodo

You Can Play Chess in Hyperbolic Space Now, and It Sucks

For a game whose rules can be taught to a small child, chess is bewilderingly complicated—there are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe, and despite the ...