Explore the Swiss Format for the 2026 Chess Olympiad, covering rules, scoring, and pairings for this unique tournament style.

Chess is a game of seemingly endless complexity, each new match expanding into an intricate weave of strategies, gambits, and countermoves. It only gets stranger if you decide to throw out the ...

In the game between chess and artificial intelligence, Google DeepMind’s researchers have made yet another move, this time teaming up with ex-chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik to design and trial ...

Chess is famous as perhaps the most respected board game ever played, and we often uses chess as a way to metaphorically teach lessons about the world. But as it turns out, chess is also pretty good ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It sounds like a classic case of the unstoppable force coming up against the immovable object. Two world-beating ...