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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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