The Atlantic

Speed Chess Changed My Brain

The poker table was down to three players. I had a queen and a 10. It wasn't the strongest hand, but I'd been analyzing my opponents' playing patterns and knew I needed to send an aggressive signal.
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Junior Speed Chess Championship 2023: D Gukesh beats Raunak Sadhwani to win title by seven points

Indian chess prodigy Grandmaster D Gukesh won the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship on Monday, beating compatriot GM Raunak Sadhwani in the final by seven points. The world No 13 raked up a ...
Yahoo

Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA Hosting Speed Chess Event in Melbourne

Longtime fans of the Wu-Tang Clan know that GZA plays a mean game of chess. The MC has been a devoted chess player for many years now, and, alongside bandmate RZA, once played against a ...
CNN

Hit Netflix show ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ will speed up chess ‘boom,’ say grandmasters

The success of Netflix’s latest hit show has taken even one of the men behind the series by surprise. Set in the 1960s, “The Queen’s Gambit” follows the story of fictional child prodigy Beth Harmon, ...
THE WEEK

Google's AI became the world's best chess player in just four hours

Four hours is all it took for Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence program to learn everything there was to know about chess, The Telegraph reported Wednesday. DeepMind's AlphaZero program, ...
ESPN

Speed chess: Abhimanyu Mishra races time to be youngest-ever GM

Abhimanyu Mishra is in a race against time. He has less than four months to achieve his target: becoming the world's youngest chess Grandmaster. He's won two of the three required GM norms in ...