"Chess" stars Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher open up about "camaraderie," preshow rituals and their kids' favorite songs.

Open Chess project delivers electric shocks for bad moves and costs $22 versus $600 commercial smart boards through open-source DIY design.

An engineer has gone viral after creating a ruthless version of chess that literally punishes players with electric shocks ...

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The first real controversy of F1’s new era. The engine rules set out a compression ratio of 16:1, a measurement of how tightly the pistons squeeze the mixture of fuel and air before it ignites. In ...

One sport that we saw a LOT of was the curling, a game played between two teams sliding eight granite stones down a long ice sheet. More than five million people watched the men's team as they won a ...

Lifting weights like sprinters, strategising like chess players, and fuelling like Tour de France cyclists, the life of a ...

On a dramatic day in the seaside German town of Weissenhaus, Magnus Carlsen won the FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship—his 21st World Championship title—after defeating Fabiano Caruana in a ...

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...

Framed as a sports tale, “Queen of Chess,” directed by Rory Kennedy, recounts the life of Judit Polgar, who battled sexism as much as rival players. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for ...