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As she sat down for a match with the world’s No1 chess player Magnus Carlsen, Alua Nurman could not resist asking for a selfie. To the 18-year-old grand master’s delight, Carlsen agreed and leaned ...

In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician who died in 1957. His real identity remained unknown—until now.

Footage shows awkward moment at Grenke festival, where electronic devices are banned to prevent players from cheating James Rothwell is The Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent. He joined in 2014 and has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atomic clocks exploit the properties of atoms to create incredibly precise 'ticks.' Nate Phillips, NIST Most clocks, from ...

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IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals. One of the most infamous episodes in the game, the ‘sex toy’ conspiracy, ...

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In popular culture, lasers are often portrayed as portable blasters that superheat whatever they hit. Some lasers do deliver tremendous amounts of energy in reality, but for scientists and engineers, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Eric R. Hudson, University of California, Los Angeles and Andrei Derevianko, ...