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It seems appropriate Jamie Ding’s historic Jeopardy! run was ended by a challenger from Philadelphia. During his 31-game winning streak, Ding cast off numerous competitors from Philadelphia — software ...

Gukesh vs Sindarov will be the youngest classical chess World Championship match in history, with a combined age of 39.

In a city celebrated both as the nation’s chess capital and one of America’s most storied sports towns, the World Chess Hall ...

Jan Timman, the chess grandmaster who has died aged 74, was one of the world’s finest players from the 1970s through to the 1990s; in an era of Soviet dominance he was known as “the Best of the West”.

The 2026 edition of the Super Chess Classic Romania tournament is set to bring together 10 of the world’s best chess players ...

For more than a decade, the Sinquefield Cup has been a key stop on the Grand Chess Tour, bringing together some of the world’s top players in a competition that helps define the highest level of the ...

The history of chess is filled with prodigies who seemed destined for greatness before they became adults. Interestingly, elite chess players spend thousands of hours training before they reach their ...