Have a good mind for computational problem-solving? Fancy netting a cool $1 million for your efforts? Then the University of St. Andrews and the Clay Mathematics Institute sure have the competition ...

Four years in the making, a unique documentary on young blind chess players from India made by British filmmaker Ian McDonald and an Indian team to screen at the World Chess Championship in Chennai. A ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently published a study seeking to understand why a YouTube chess channel with over one million subscribers had a live interview pulled for "harmful and ...

It sounds like a humorous made-up cautionary tale about the hypersensitivity surrounding race relations today — except that it’s completely true. According to the Independent, chess champion Antonio ...

British filmmaker Ian McDonald announced the completion of his film Algorithms, which will feature a documentary on Blind chess for the first time in India. Talking more about the movie, Ian tells us, ...

In 1997, Garry Kasparov, widely regarded as the world's greatest chess player, was defeated by Deep Blue, a computer. But how much did that reveal about the 'brainpower' of machines? Tim Harford ...

Ken Regan could be called a chess detective. NPR's Scott Simon talks to the computer scientist and chess master whose algorithm reveals whether players are cheating at the game. Ken Regan is a kind of ...