A newly released toxicology report says influential American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died of an abnormal heartbeat caused by an accidental overdose.

Friends found Naroditsky on his living room couch with bags of kratom powder and over-the-counter cough medicine strewn ...

Chess computers have been around for a long time. Now come the chess robots, at least if it's up to the wishes of the AI company SenseTime from Hong Kong. Its SenseRobot devices face the player at ...

Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...

The Picochess chess program already has a long and storied history behind it—something you should be aware of if you’re looking to download and use it to play chess with on Raspberry Pi. After years ...

Magnus Carlsen has secured the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour title, earning a $100,000 bonus after reaching the semifinals in Cape Town. Despite an early setback, Carlsen fought back to clinch ...

India’s 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. The chess prodigy edged out the ...

The death of a young grandmaster accused of cheating by one of his childhood heroes has once again raised the spectre of fraud in the so-called Game of Kings. Daniel Naroditsky, 29, was a pioneer in ...

The Russian chess master accused by his peers of bullying Daniel Naroditsky, the U.S. grandmaster who was found dead last week, has himself been hit with unfounded cheating allegations in the past — a ...

The death of American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky may have been the result of a drug overdose, and it is being investigated as a possible suicide, according to a police report released ...

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died at age 29, The Charlotte Chess Center (N.C.) and his family announced in a statement on Monday. The cause of death is not yet public and the statement said the ...