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 ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — James Canty III is the new world champion of chessboxing. Chessboxing is a hybrid sport combining alternating rounds of speed chess and boxing. Someone wins by checkmate, ...

Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua is officially on, and while the matchup itself has already stirred plenty of debate, fans are mostly wondering one simple thing: what are the rules of this fight? Former ...

Terence Crawford, boxing's pound-for-pound king, announced his retirement from the sport on Tuesday evening with a perfect 42-0-0 record, with 31 wins coming by way of knockout. A five-division ...

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. Born in 2022, Sarwagya — from Sagar in the ...

Will MacLeod ’26, a math major in the College of Arts and Sciences, earned silver for Team USA in the Chessboxing World Championships in September after starting the sport just three months prior. And ...

The Blue Jays logo has popped up in some unexpected places lately. (Kevin Raposo / MLB Photos via Getty Images) After millions of Japanese fans watched the Toronto Blue Jays in last month’s World ...