If Squid Game Season 3 truly pits Gi-hun and In-ho against each other in a human chess match, it would be the ultimate full-circle moment for two men who have both survived the horrors of the ...

Chess, like other games, is a testing ground that combines theory and action. It is no accident that the best performers in sports are often effective men and women who achieve new successes when ...

In fact, in game-theory terms, chess is fairly simple: it is a two-person zero-sum game, where one side wins what the other side loses. More complicated games have multiple players and more than ...

Oliver Roeder is a journalist, author and games player. He is a former senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, where he covered the World Chess Championship and other gaming pursuits. The following is ...

Chess prodigy Hans Niemann is competing in the World Junior Chess Championship — but he's also answering questions about an outlandish cheating theory.

But games are also dangerous fiction. Their rules and rewards can replace people’s actual preferences. Game theory promises to automate decisions, but it’s never a full account of human behaviour.

Four games later, however, the humanity of chess was once again on display. Carlsen had decisively won three games, with mistakes by Nepomniachtchi offering two reminders: Technology has made ...