The New Yorker

After Magnus Carlsen, Chess Has Entered a New Age

A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, as they compete in an era defined by computers.
ExtremeTech

A new (computer) chess champion is crowned, and the continued demise of human Grandmasters

It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have ...
CNN

Magnus Carlsen plays in World Blitz Chess Championship after resolving jeans controversy

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen played his first match at the World Blitz Championship after initially quitting the chess tournament due to a dress code dispute with organizers. On Friday, Carlsen walked ...
Newsweek

18-Year Old Gukesh Dommaraju Becomes World’s Youngest Ever Chess Champion

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju has made history by becoming the ...
Indiatimes

Gukesh, Vaishali World Chess Championship matches to be held together? Here’s what we know

NEW DELHI: On Thursday, the whole nation woke up to a historic realisation. Two of India’s young chess prodigies, 19-year-old Dommaraju Gukesh and 24-year-old Vaishali Rameshbabu, will compete in ...