Vincent Keymer, a German Grandmaster, played a crucial role as Gukesh's openings specialist during the World Chess Championship in Singapore. Keymer's fresh ideas, particularly his analysis of the ...
Chess has enjoyed a sharp rise in popularity in the 2020s. The spike began during COVID lockdowns and increased when Chess.com created its first PogChamps tournament on Twitch in 2020, which proved ...
Two dozen programmers from around the world have signed up to compete in Germany next month in the first computer chess tournament devoted to Chess960, a game variant invented by fugitive chess genius ...
On Sunday 23rd July 1972, the American grandmaster Bobby Fischer made the first move of the sixth game in the world chess championship—shunting his pawn two squares up the board. Nothing, in itself, ...