YouTube is quietly hosting Pac-Man Superfast within its “Playables” section. “You’d be forgiven for not knowing about YouTube Playables,” writes Ars Technica’s Kyle Orland. “Few seemed to note its official announcement last year as a collection of free…

Magnus Carlsen “announced this week that he is auctioning off the Italian luxury brand jeans that started a dress code dispute at December’s World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships,” reports the Associated Press. (“Condition: Pre-owned,” says the lis…

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) says it is temporarily banning transgender women from competing in its women’s events. The BBC reports: The FIDE said individual cases would require “further analysis” and that a decision could take up to two y…

The Guardian reports:
The Magnus Carlsen era is over. Ding Liren becomes China’s first world chess champion. The country now can boast the men’s and women’s titleholders: an unthinkable outcome during the Cultural Revolution when it was banned as a gam…

It was Magnus Carlsen’s last tournament as world champion, reports CNN — and he was eliminated after a “dramatic slip of his mouse” in his online match against Hikaru Nakamura:

After drawing their first two games, the duo faced off in an Armaged…

An anonymous reader shares a report from Ars Technica:
Over the years, King of Kong star Billy Mitchell has seen his world-record Donkey Kong scores stripped, partially reinstated, and endlessly litigated, both in actual court and the court of public o…

On New Year’s Day, Chess.com launched five chess-playing bots — each with a cat persona. But the Deseret News reports that something unexpected happened with “Mittens”…
Interest generated by Mittens is outpacing the surge that came on the heels…