Try your hand at four of my favorite tactics from Samarkand

Best-selling authors discuss their latest books

What a pivotal hand at the World Series of Poker can teach us about decision making under time constraints

LeBron James is a Sixer! What can his decision teach us about games and life?

Susan Polgar, a chess grandmaster, will be playing 50 artists, critics and fans of Marcel Duchamp at the same time, in honor of his birthday, July 28.

The payment comes three years after a jury found President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer.

In the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, GM Hikaru Nakamura was chasing the tournament leader, GM Javokhir Sindarov. After twelve moves, Sindarov played a move that Nakamura hadn't prepared, and Nakamu...

A dispatch from the first leg of my Las Vegas trip

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The rise of slop and the fall of trust, in words and in chess

I show Fabian the game that inspired hulachess

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

An AI can't play Hulachess. Or can it?

Notorious examples of finger failure on the chessboard

Probability and its discontents

Boxing rings, watch parties and seven-year-old readers, my book tour took some interesting turns

My brother Greg's big Jeopardy! win, and two things we can learn from it.

In this excerpt from her new book, Jennifer Shahade argues that the smartest moves in life, as in chess, sometimes move sideways.

On spaced repetition, the Ding bounce, and Shahade trivia lore

WGM Jennifer Shahade delivers a case for why chess thinking matters far beyond the board in her new book Thinking Sideways: How to Think Like a Chess Player and Win at Life.

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An excerpt from "Thinking Sideways," by Jennifer Shahade

US Chess and WGM Jennifer Shahade are pleased to announce that they have resolved all matters between them amicably and wish each other well going forward.

Running good at a poker festival in London, and the feeling of 52!

In the early 2020s, readers flocked to books to explain political turbulence. But is the world now too grim to read about – and are podcasters taking the place of authors?

Schachspieler müssen alle zwei Minuten Entscheidungen fällen. Welche Denkmethoden können wir uns von ihnen abschauen? Schach-Großmeisterin Jennifer Shahade hat einen handfesten Tipp.

Jennifer and Fabian create a chess set out of coins, then study a game by Grandmaster Ken Rogoff

My week across the pond

I head to London to launch Thinking Sideways

A free in person event for ABSW members and Kings College London staff and students

Fabi and I go over classic blunders from the greatest players of all time.