Thousands of new people are delving into the sport of chess on a daily basis now and trying their hand at learning the many principles and theories that have been developed and fine-tuned since chess ...

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It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess. A standard smartphone can now play the kind of moves that make a grandmaster’s head spin. But one artificial ...

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Frans Peeters. The cliché says good decisions take time. But in professional chess, the opposite pattern keeps appearing.

As the doors to the tournament hall abruptly shut, the pressure began to mount. My first opponent seemed to have already planned the first few moves. My mom, scanning the ...