Video: Diving chess players battle it out on submerged chess boards

Diving chess is played at the bottom of a swimming pool, using a chessboard with magnetic chess pieces. The players dive ...
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Daniel Naroditsky’s Death Exposes an Existential Threat to Chess

Daniel Naroditsky at the FIDE World Rapid Championship on Dec. 28, 2024 in New York, NY.Lennart Ootes—Getty Images In July, the American grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky played a speed chess game against ...
The New York Times

Indian boy, aged 3, becomes youngest rated chess player in history

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha has become the youngest player in chess history to earn an official FIDE rating at the age of three years, seven months and 20 days. Born in 2022, Sarwagya — from Sagar in the ...
Phys.org

Using video games to get kids interested in learning

Though some might see video games as a distraction, a recent study from the University of Georgia suggests they can actually serve as a place to practice key science skills—with the help of some ...