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The chess puzzle that led to a Fields Medal

7/21/2022 – In what can be only described as a wonderfully inspiring 'comeback' story, the 2022 Fields Medal was awarded, among others, to June Huh for his work in chromatic polynomials, stemming from a chess puzzle involving four knights. The Fields Medal is one of the most prestigious awards in Mathematics, given out only once every four years, to the brightest minds in the field. | Photo: Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
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NYT Games - Daily chess, wordle, and more

6/24/2022 – Last week we shared the announcement of the revival of chess in the New York Times. With no clarification in the NYT article itself, it was assumed this was a weekly contribution. But as we were vigorously disabused, the chess puzzle is a daily fixture in the NYT Games section, but allow us to share more of this quasi-cult section of the venerable newspaper.
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Daniel Naroditsky is new NYT chess columnist

6/14/2022 – Almost eight years ago, in 2014, it was with deep chagrin that we announced the demise of the decades-old chess column in the venerable New York Times. Its most recent upkeeper at the time was the New York Times journalist, Dylan Loeb McClain, who still writes about chess affairs for the paper. It is with pleasure that we can trumpet its resurrection at the hands of GM Daniel Naroditsky.
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Homeless immigrant family finds a home thanks to chess

3/26/2019 – Just a week ago, 8-year old Tanitoluwa Adewumi was living in a New York City homeless shelter. But a story in the New York Times about his success at the NY State Scholastic Chess Championship launched the boy to international prominence and prompted a GoFundMe campaign which has raised nearly $250,000 dollars. | Photo: "Just Tani" GoFundMe page

Chess and the Gender Gap in the New York Times

7/14/2016 – In 2007 an Italian study wanted to find out if and how gender affects performance in chess. The result surprises. According to the study women play better if they don't know whether their opponent is a man or a woman. But why is that so? And why is there such a marked gender gap in the non-physical sport of chess? The New York Times wanted to know more about this persistent puzzle.

NYT: Masters of Chess, Not Self-Promotion

3/31/2016 – In an interesting piece on the recently held Candidates tournament, the New York Times discusses the various issues involving the promotion of chess for corporate sponsorship, from the broadcast exclusivity demanded by AGON to magazine photoshoots with the players. Accompanying the write-up is an excellent gallery of images by James Hill. Well worth a look.

NY Times: Caruana awaiting his turn on bigger stage

11/12/2015 – As its newest arrival on the top teams, Fabiano Caruana is making the rounds to do his part to promote chess in the United States. He has been impressed by the improvements he has seen since he left it as a teenager. He was recently in new York where he visited schools and met with children for exhibition events and there to cover it was the New York Times.

NY Times: Your Move, Grandmaster

3/11/2015 – That was the title of an article that appeared on the front page of the Sports section of the New York Times. Written by former chess columnist Dylan Loeb McClain, it describes the ongoing efforts currently underway behind the scenes to bolster the US team for international events. Though fairly common in other sports such as football, it is less so in chess. An interesting read.

NY Times: Fostering Sevian's talent

1/14/2015 – It was not long for the US media to gravitate to one of its newest stars, fourteen-year-old Samuel Sevian, the youngest grandmaster in American chess and the youngest in the world at the moment. The New York Times published an article describing how the Kasparov Chess Foundation has helped put the player in touch with a top trainer as well as give him training with Kasparov himself.

New York Times on cool young grandmasters

12/13/2014 – In the days of Fischer and Spassky chess stars had national celebrity. In the years since it has flourished in schools and clubs, but interest has languished at the highest levels. It is just a tough sell as a spectator sport, and champions are perceived as esoteric talents without much relevance in the real world. But that may be changing, because of two young GMs. Interesting read.

Dylan McClain on the NY Times chess column

10/20/2014 – We recently published a piece on the termination of the New York Times chess column (after more than fifty years). A Slate article seemed to celebrate the event and the chance to replace the most recent columnist, Dylan Loeb McClain, with a more interesting writer. McClain thinks that Slate "got it almost completely wrong" and explains to us exactly how the NYT column worked.

NYT chess column dies – but could be resurrected

10/15/2014 – On October 11 a well-known chess column which has been running since 1962 finished with an ominous sentence: "This is the final chess column to run in The New York Times.” The end of an era, brought on by the dominance of chess in the web? Not so fast, says Matt Gaffney in a thoughtful Slate Magazine article. He names two candidates who could take over the NYT chess column.
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