Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently published a study seeking to understand why a YouTube chess channel with over one million subscribers had a live interview pulled for "harmful and ...

Four years in the making, a unique documentary on young blind chess players from India made by British filmmaker Ian McDonald and an Indian team to screen at the World Chess Championship in Chennai. A ...

Chess is an antique, about 1,500 years old, according to most historians. As a result, its evolution seems essentially complete, a hoary game now largely trudging along. That’s not to say that there ...

British filmmaker Ian McDonald announced the completion of his film Algorithms, which will feature a documentary on Blind chess for the first time in India. Talking more about the movie, Ian tells us, ...

Ken Regan could be called a chess detective. NPR's Scott Simon talks to the computer scientist and chess master whose algorithm reveals whether players are cheating at the game. Ken Regan is a kind of ...

For the blind players in “Algorithms,” chess is not just a mental game but a tactile one. Sociologist Ian McDonald’s first feature-length documentary profiles three Indian teen boys competing in blind ...