In chess, faster decisions are on average of higher quality. This is the conclusion of a study that has just been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team of ...

You’re reading The Sporting Scene, Louisa Thomas’s weekly look at the world of sports. When Gukesh Dommaraju was a small child growing up in Chennai, India, his parents wanted him to be an athlete.

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“Untold,” a sports documentary series, recounts a notorious match between two grandmasters and the cheating accusations that rocked the chess world and beyond. By Dylan Loeb McClain Dylan Loeb McClain ...

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Few engine families go down quite so well in the history books as Chevrolet's iconic LS series. The family consists of powerful small-block V8 engines, and they've been seen in everything from ...

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a challenge. Although playing chess on a computer against an AI has been a thing ...

Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Takashi Ayoma / Getty, Antonio Calanni / AP Formula 1’s car design revolution for 2026 is the biggest in a generation. Not only are the chassis designs ...

Duolingo has been through a lot of changes over the past few years. What was once solely a language-learning app has grown into a social media marketing machine, a destination for math and music ...

The mother of Daniel Naroditsky, the former grandmaster chess player who died earlier this week, has broken her silence on her son’s death and said that he had been tormented by online accusations ...