Chess is a game meant for smart-minded folks, but the nobleness and royalty of the game get stained when cheating is involved. Recently, world chess champion Magnus Carlsen made an indirect yet firm ...

A few years ago, the chess website Chess.com temporarily banned US grandmaster Hans Niemann for playing chess moves online that the site suspected had been suggested to him by a computer program. It ...

A new study says many AI models will cheat when playing a game of chess. Researchers pitted the AI against Stockfish, a powerful open-source chess engine. But some models, including Open AI’s o1 ...

The issue cheating in chess has resurfaced after World Champion Magnus Carlsen refused to play against Hans Niemann, apparently alleging cheating. Recently Chess.com, the leading platform for online ...

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"It really has taught me a lot of very important lessons about life and chess." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Last year the ...

A teenage American chess grandmaster at the centre of a cheating scandal likely had illegal assistance in more than 100 online games, an investigation by Chess.com has found. It accused Hans Niemann, ...

A Reddit user recently pit the chess engine Stockfish, which has won the Top Chess Engine Championship eight times, against the notorious AI-powered conversation bot ChatGPT in a dismal chess match.