On 26 November 1844, two chess teams faced off while separated by 60 kilometers, as the Washington Chess Club played a team ...

YouTube is launching a closed Beta test for Playables Builder, a prototype web app built using Gemini 3 where users create ...

The room is mostly silent as two players muse intently over a chessboard, pondering their next moves. They take time to pause, think and strategize while their instructor watches. “I was always an ...

Safi Aziz has turned his passion for hospitality into Joust, a social experience startup that's attracting everyone from ...

Dan Houser, best known for his work writing video games like the Red Dead and Grand Theft Auto series, is creating a video game based on his recently released novel about an AI gone wrong. Last year, ...

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha joins a growing list of young Indian players who have come to dominate the sport in recent years.

It feels like generative AI is everywhere in game development—a Google survey estimated 87% of game developers are using it ...

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The chess world is no stranger to scandals, from a 1960s fistfight between grand masters Bobby Fischer and Pal Benko to allegations of another grand master, Vladimir Kramnik, cheating in the 2006 ...