This is a video of the last 7-minutes of the 2024 World Chess Championship, in which 18-year old Gukesh Dommaraju of India defeats 32-year old Ding Liren of China after Liren make a fatal mistake with his rook, leaving his bishop trapped. Going into the game, the best of 14

In the event you manage to get one of your lowly pawns all the way across the board in a game of chess, you have to promote it to another piece so it can continue to battle. Most commonly chosen is the queen on account of her maneuverability. And this

This is a video from the recent Moscow Chess Open, where a chess-playing robotic arm (we’ll call it Robby Fischer) broke a 7-year old’s finger by pinning it to the board because the boy “did not give the robot enough time to respond to his most recent move.” Never rush

This is a video of 25-year old International Chess Federation (Fédération Internationale des Échecs, FIDE) master Alexandra Botez challenging three of the best hustlers in New York City’s Union Square Park. She takes the first two easily before losing to ‘Russian Paul’, who’s widely considered the best in the park

This is a video from the folks at Youtube channel TITANS of CNC: Academy of a single massive block of metal being machined into a 500-pound chessboard. That…damn, that’s going to be tough to flip when I lose.