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Celebrate New Year's Eve with a friendly game of chess
In 1995, a group of four chess enthusiasts were devastated when their opponents took their queen in a very public New Year's Eve match at Madison Square Garden. Exactly 25 years later, they are...
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The origins of chess
An article at History Hit asks the question, "Who invented chess?" That particular question doesn't have an answer, because chess, like many other things, wasn't invented so much as it was developed....
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3D printing and painting a Star Wars Dejarik Holochess set
When I was an editor at Make:, one of the most popular posts I ever wrote was about a guy who'd sculpted, molded, cast, and constructed his own Dejarik Holochess (minus the "holo). But that was before...
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Short documentary about why championship chess sets are so expensive
When the narrator says "less than 10 people are entrusted to carve the knights for world championship sets", one's mind may wander to the fact that chess authorities are among the most blatantly...
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Watch – chess rematch between champion Alexandra Botez and NYC's famous chess...
A five-time Canadian National Girls Champion, Alexandra Botez won the US Girls Nationals when she was 15. Currently, she holds the title of Woman FIDE Master with the International Chess Federation. In...
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Chess tournament players burn up to 6,000 calories a day
Sitting at a table and occasionally moving chess pieces a few inches at a time turns out to be great exercise, at least if you're competing in a tournament. ESPN looked into why so many top-ranked...
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Chessguessr: wordle but with chess moves
In Chessguessr you have to guess the next five moves from a selected master game, and are informed each time which moves you got right—like wordle, but with chess. As with the original word game, there...
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Video: the moment a chess robot broke 7-year-old opponent's finger during game
During a match at the Moscow Open chess tournament, a chess-playing robot apparently grabbed and broke the finger of its 7-year-old opponent. "This is of course bad," said Sergey Lazarev, president of...
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Chess cheating gadget made with a Raspberry Pi Zero
James Stanley devised a subtle way to cheat at chess (and presumably similar games) with a custom gadget concealed in his shoe. It's slow and difficult to use, but there's plenty of room for...
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Ass code: chess star accused of cheating with vibrating sex toy in anus
Hans Neimann, a young player rocketing up the ratings, recently handed chess champion Magnus Carlsen a surprise defeat. Carlsen quit the tournament, posting a video of soccer manager José Mourinho...
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Chess commentator fired after "chess is maybe not for women" remark
Because there isn't enough scandal in the chess world right now, grandmaster Ilya Smirin uttered sexist remarks while commentating the FIDE Womens' Grand Prix on Tuesday—among them an admission he...
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Teenage chess grandmaster cheated often, says chess.com
Hans Moke Niemann, the teenage chess grandmaster who world champion Magnus Carlsen accused of cheating at the board, admitted doing so only twice while playing online. But chess.com, a popular venue...
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Introducing Cheekmate, the wireless haptic communication system that kicks...
In response to recent allegations of tournament chess cheating, our friends at Adafruit Industries decided to get cheeky with the news and demonstrate how one could put together a wireless haptic...
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Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann sues rivals who accused him of cheating,...
American grandmaster Hans Niemann filed a $100m lawsuit yesterday against world champion Magnus Carlsen, rival Hikaru Nakamura and the website chess.com, all of whom have accused him of cheating. "My...
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The world of Chessboxing
Two intellectuals sit down from each other, facing off in a battle of wits. The pieces are moved across the board with surgical precision, their hands in an endless blur as the clacking of the chess...
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Iranian chess player who competed without hijab warned not to return there
International Master Sara Khadem competed at last week's World Blitz Championships in Almaty without wearing a hijab, the headscarf women must wear under the Iranian regime's dress code. Reuters...
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Ain't It Funny How The Knight Moves is a devilish online chess puzzle
Jair Trejo, inspired by Ben Finegold and Bob Seger, created Ain't It Funny How The Knight Moves, an online chess puzzle. You might be tempted to interpret the instructions as "move the knight to every...
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Man wears burka as disguise to enter women's chess championship
Stanley Omondi, 25, donned a burka as a disguise to enter this month's women's chess championship in Kenya, Africa. A strong player who had done well in previous competitions, Omondo registered under...
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World chess organization bans transgender players from women's events because...
NPR reports that the International Chess Federation (FIDE) has joined the ranks of sports oversight organizations to issue unnecessary bans on the participant of transgender athletes until "further...
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Chinese Chess master accused of cheating using remote-controlled vibrating...
Last year, Chess grandmaster Hans Neimann was accused of cheating at the board by using vibrating anal beads, an accusation so stupidly dramatic it briefly lent the game the kayfabey vibe of pro...
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Ashwath Kaushik beat a chess grandmaster. He's only 8 years old.
On Sunday, Ashwath Kaushik of Singapore beat Polish chess grandmaster Jacek Stopa, 37, in the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open competition in Switzerland. Kaushik is 8 years old. He's now the youngest person...
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I love watching this chess player crush obnoxious dudes
Anna Cramling is a 21-year-old professional chess player who has over 900,000 subscribers on YouTube and over 400,000 followers on Twitch. Her parents both hold the title of Grandmaster, and her mother...
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Chess player allegedly tried to poison rival by smearing mercury on chess...
Professional chess player Amina Abakarova, 40, of Dagestan was caught on video allegedly trying to poison her rival, Umayganat Osmanova, 30, at the Dagestan Chess Championship last week. Abakarova is...
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Elon Musk's latest rant targets chess, claiming it's too simple and needs...
Elon was duped into grossly overpaying for Xitter. Attempting to salvage the situation, he commanded his underlings to prioritize all his posts atop everyone's feed. He now whiles away his days in...
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Chess grandmaster accused of using toilet phone to cheat
There were no claims of anal beads vibrating in morse code or steel conkers hidden in his pockets, but chess grandmaster Kirill Shevchenko was kicked out of a tournament in Spain all the same: he...
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3D-printed Dune chess set
Rory Noble-Turner's 3D-printed Dune chess set suggests simplicity of materials while being the complex product of cutting-edge 3D quartz-printing tech. And I'm not sure I could cope with the...
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Chess champ Magnus Carlsen ejected from tournament for wearing jeans
Magnus Carlsen, the world's top-rated chess player, refused to change out of jeans at the World Rapid Championship in New York. He was disqualified, and subsequently withdrew from the Blitz tournament...
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Chess champ Magnus Carlsen rejoins tournament after they let him wear jeans
Magnus Carlsen, the world's top-rated chess player, quit the rapid and blitz world championship in New York City last week after it ejected him for wearing jeans—part of a recently-imposed dress code...
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Chess engine made of 84,688 regular expressions
Nicholas Carlini wrote a 2-ply minimax chess engine with 84,688 regular expressions. It's not a massive mangled choose-your-own adventure through common openings made of if conditions: it follows the...
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RIP Boris Spassky: "one of the greatest chess players of the Soviet era and...
Boris Spassky, the World Chess Champion who faced Bobby Fischer in the legendary "Match of the Century," died Thursday at age 88. Spassky was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), where he became a...
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