Earlier this month, a handful of the world’s greatest chess players gathered in an event space located in the lush greenery of Paris’ Bois de Vincennes. The spectacle was part of an ambitious vision ...

Kyler Murray considered his lost pawn and strategized his next move. But before Murray advanced his queen, Cleveland Browns receiver Amari Cooper extended a hand across the chessboard. “You won,” ...

If you scrunch your eyes up just as an offensive line sets for a play, the outlines of the players look like chess pieces being moved around the board by some invisible hand. Some run in the straight ...

A 10-year-old chess prodigy has made history as the youngest female player ever to defeat a grandmaster, which is the highest distinction any chess player can earn. Bodhana Sivanandan earned the ...

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, who is from India, has made history with his debut on the federation's December 2025 rating list Misha Friedman/Getty Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, a 3-year-old boy from India, has ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told a ...