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They fought gallantly and when it was over on Saturday afternoon, the horse, I'll Have Another, and the chessplayer, Hikaru Nakamura, 24, were declared ...

"When you're 17 years old," says former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, "it's all fascinating and cool: parties, company, girls, alcohol... But then you grow ...

Cheats at chess can use powerful computer programs that play better than people do, but a computer scientist is trying to code a way to catch them.

In January 2004, I called Magnus Carlsen the Mozart of Chess for the first time. It was a spontaneous, last-minute decision to meet a deadline for my column in ...