My research shows that chess created a space in which players – regardless of their skin colour – could engage as equals.
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When one former world chess champion implied that another was cheating on the online platform Chess.com, a statistician was called in to examine the evidence.
A dramatic blunder sealed a match between Indian and Chinese chess champions that has highlighted the resurgent popularity of the ancient game.
Over the centuries Chess has become a proxy for geopolitical conflict where rivalries are played out over a board game.
Male domination in bridge means there can be a lack of recognition of the structural barriers for women.
Of the risks posed by AI, overtaking human intelligence isn’t an immediate concern.
Air pollution causes chess players to make more errors – this may have implications for high-skilled professionals.
Chess affords young people a host of interdisciplinary skills, Canada should invest in teaching them how to play it.
You need an AI and lots of data to work out whether there’s any foul play in a chess game.
Machines have been getting better at mimicking improvisation. But can this distinctly human process serve as a bulwark against the mechanization of life and art?
Can everyday women expect men to dramatically revise their sexist attitudes like the men surrounding the chess whiz in ‘The Queen’s Gambit’? The MeToo utopia answers: Why shouldn’t they?
Stereotype threat is where minorities underperform solely because they’re aware of a stereotype that people of their group do worse.
Ever since players tweaked the game to reflect the medieval social order, poets and writers have used chess as an allegory for love, duty, conflict and accomplishment.
Scientists in an artificial intelligence lab have made a breakthrough in solving the problem of how proteins fold into their final three-dimensional shape. The work could speed up creation of drugs.
Chess in Australia during the 1960s, the period of The Queen’s Gambit, was a far cry from the popularity of the game in the US. It was hard to get chess learning materials or travel to tournaments.
The video game community on Twitch has taken a massive interest in chess. The young, irreverent gamers and the ancient world of chess are both transforming as their cultures collide.
Ever since the late 1800s, it has been standard for white to go first in chess. Has the time come to get rid of that rule?
Playing chess online offers a variety of ways for children to get good at the royal game, but it also comes with a few pitfalls. An expert in chess education provides some advice.
As the Women’s World Chess Championship takes place in China and Russia this month, Alexey Root, an expert on chess in education, weighs in on the benefits of having a separate championship for women.
The same skills and talents that enable chess players to dominate the board will also serve aspiring lawyers well in the courtroom, a law scholar argues.
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