Given time to play on YouTube, there aren't too many 8 year-olds who would choose to watch chess tutorials. But that's what Aarush Khanolkar did four years ago when he started learning. He clearly ...

From YouTube tutorials to viral blitz matches, a new wave of chess creators is making the 64 squares more exciting and accessible than ever. Influencers like GothamChess, Nemo Zhou, and other rising ...

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The world often feels dominated by sadness and doomscrolling. But fun is still possible – and necessary. Here are tried and tested ways to enjoy yourself ...

The new Hugging Face Reachy Mini App Store already hosts a library of over 200 community-built applications, and Reachy Mini ...

Setting Sun is the only mahjong parlor in Hampton Roads. Owner James Sagayno said the main goal is to spread culture through ...

At last, Dallas has a plan when it doesn't have the ball. Expect Caleb Downs, in particular, to help the team realize it.

Some strategy games lure you in with friendly tutorials and approachable mechanics, only to reveal layers of complexity that take hundreds of hours to master. From Civilization 6 to Slay the Spire, ...

Large language models (LLMs) are bad at chess. And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not because they push me to ...

You’re reading The Sporting Scene, Louisa Thomas’s weekly look at the world of sports. When Gukesh Dommaraju was a small child growing up in Chennai, India, his parents wanted him to be an athlete.

Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan has earned the right to challenge India's Dommaraju Gukesh for the world title. Both men are under 21 and from Asia, underlining an ongoing demographic shift in top ...

NEW DELHI: For the first time at the Women's Candidates in Cyprus, someone has asserted her dominance, and, to no one's surprise, it is India's very own Vaishali Rameshbabu.Playing with the black ...