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FIDE Backs Shorter Classical Chess Games—But Draws Line At Three Rounds A Day

The world governing body is preparing to relax classical chess time controls after a General Assembly vote, but disagreements ...
DAZN

Hikaru Nakamura makes chess history as Magnus Carlsen falls 100 points behind rival

Hikaru Nakamura becomes the first player to reach a 3500 blitz rating on Chess.com, opening a 100-point gap over Magnus ...

How the game of chess became cool

Zelko Odorcic, 73, is a celebrity at Knightcap Chess Club. When he walks into Soho House Toronto one Friday night in August, ...
Ars Technica

Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games

The game of chess has long been central to computer science and AI-related research, most notably in IBM’s Deep Blue in the 1990s and, more recently, AlphaZero. But the game is about more than ...

San Diego Chess & Social surpasses 500 paid members in eight months

In 2023, two San Diegans who had never met found each other on Reddit because they wanted more people to play chess with. A ...