Some of the world’s highest-ranked and most famous chess players have agreed to compete in a new, fast-paced format event, Checkmate: USA vs. India, near Dallas this October. Current world champion ...
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.
Twenty years ago IBM’s Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match. The supercomputer’s success against an ...