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Magnus Carlsen vs The World: chess grandmaster’s 46-day game against 143,000 players ends in draw
The world’s top-ranked chess player, Magnus Carlsen, has drawn an unprecedented game where he played against more than 143,000 players from around the world. The event set a new record for someone facing the biggest number of opponents in an online chess match.
He could have advanced toward a title when his opponent, Boris Spassky, took ill. Instead, he displayed one of the game’s ...
In chess as in life, people use memory as a shortcut for decision-making. That strategy can backfire when the present doesn’t resemblance the past.
People have been interested in chess-playing computers before there were any chess-playing computers. In a 1950 paper, [Claude Shannon] defined two major chess-playing strategies. Apparently ...
The Crystal Palace forward recently took time out of FA Cup final preparations to win a chess tournament. So is he any good?
Josh Hausauer plays up to 30 chess games online using a high-tech board after decades battling Fahr’s syndrome. Josh Hausauer, 42, of Moorhead has been living with a serious condition called ...
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