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Norway's World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen competes in the 44th Chess Olympiad in Mamallapuram, India

The cheating scandal rocking the chess world

Culture

World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway withdrew from an online chess match against 19-year-old American player Hans Niemann at the $350,000 Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis, Missouri.

Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Beth Harmon, a child chess prodigy, in Netflix's 'The Queen's Gambit'.

Garry Kasparov on how ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ brilliantly moves chess skills to center stage

Culture
Garry Kasparov faced off against Deep Blue, IBM’s chess-playing computer in 1997. Deep Blue was able to imagine an average of 200,000,000 positions per second. Kasparov ended up losing the match.

Garry Kasparov and the game of artificial intelligence

Technology
Ukraine's grandmaster Anna Muzychuk, wearing a yellow shirt, stares down her opponent across a chess board.

Citing women’s rights, chess champ skips title defense in Saudi Arabia

Global Politics
Norwegian chess world champion Magnus Carlsen in a suit and holding a bottle a Champagne while attending the Norwegian Sports Gala in Oslo January 4, 2014.

The Italian Bobby Fischer is making chess history in St. Louis

Culture
A poster of chess player Garry Kasparov in Tromso, Norway, where the former world champion lost his bid to become the president of the World Chess Federation, or FIDE.

A chess legend fails in his bid to become the sport’s official king

Culture

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the current president of chess governing body FIDE, beat former world chess champion and Russian dissident Garry Kasparov to win another four-year term. The election turned bitter as the two men sparred over their political ties.

A poster of chess player Garry Kasparov in Tromso, Norway, where the former world champion lost his bid to become the president of the World Chess Federation, or FIDE.

A chess legend fails in his bid to become the sport’s official king

Culture

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the current president of chess governing body FIDE, beat former world chess champion and Russian dissident Garry Kasparov to win another four-year term. The election turned bitter as the two men sparred over their political ties.

The World

He boxes pretty well, and he plays chess reasonably well. But when you combine them, watch out

Sports

Spaniard Jonathan Rodriquez Vega has become a near-champion in Chessboxing. It’s a sport growing in popularity, that yes, combines boxing and chess.

Chamonix Skywalk

Stepping out in the new year?

Global Scan

If being in the French Alps isn’t enough of a thrill, now you can “step into the void” with only a glass floor to hold you. Indian police use bananas to recover stolen goods. And we introduce you to the Paradogs of World War II, Chess boxing, Christian Rock Pakistani-style, and more in today’s Global Scan.

Norway (white) versus the rest of the world (black)

Norway challenged the world to a chess match… and the Internet trolls won

Arts, Culture & Media

It was a novel idea… to crowd-source a chess match online. If your computer’s address was in Norway, you could vote on Norway’s moves. If it was outside Norway, then you could vote on the “rest of the world’s” moves. If only it had worked that way…