Ever since the chess world went into collective panic over allegations of cheating among super-grandmasters back in 2022, the game has been roiled by rampant paranoia. Tournaments have scaled up ...

The International Chess Federation is investigating a Russian grandmaster for allegations of cheating he leveled at fellow elite players, including 29-year-old U.S. grandmaster and YouTube sensation ...

A new study says many AI models will cheat when playing a game of chess. Researchers pitted the AI against Stockfish, a powerful open-source chess engine. But some models, including Open AI’s o1 ...

The death of Daniel Naroditsky exposed the conflicts between the game’s traditional wing and its many online stars.

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Researchers have found that AI will cheat to win at chess Deep reasoning models are more active cheaters Some models simply rewrote the board in their favor In a move that will perhaps surprise nobody ...

A report from Chess.com alleging that grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann likely cheated in over 100 online games upended the chess world in October 2022. WSJ explains how a player might bypass security ...

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