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He shared a Nobel Prize for research that helped explain the fundamental forces in the universe. Martinus J.G. Veltman, a Dutch theoretical physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for [...]

She was an important force behind his success, and he called her practically every day, no matter where he was in the world. She died of Covid-19. This obituary is [...]

Byline: Dylan Loeb McClain The actress Beth Behrs has a new obsession - chess - and the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit' is to blame. Her obsession even got her [...]

The actress Beth Behrs has a new obsession -- chess -- and the Netflix series ''The Queen's Gambit'' is to blame. Her obsession even got her into trouble on the [...]

The Netflix hit captures the struggles of women in the game, where female grandmasters are rare. But the reality, one top player says, is worse. Judit Polgar might be the [...]

The Netflix show about a female chess prodigy in the 1950s and '60s is one of the best screen adaptations of the game yet. But there are a few wrong [...]

It isn't quite ''Star Trek,'' but his optical tweezers use the pressure of light in a laser beam to seize and manipulate microscopic objects, from atoms to living cells. Arthur [...]

Byline: Dylan Loeb McClain Supported by the Communist regime, he won major tournament after major tournament during the Cold War years and beat stars like Bobby Fischer. Wolfgang Uhlmann, a [...]

Supported by the Communist regime, he won major tournament after major tournament during the Cold War years and beat stars like Bobby Fischer. Wolfgang Uhlmann, a chess grandmaster who was [...]

A former model, she stood out in the chess world for her glamour in what is often thought of as an unglamorous game. Arianne Caoili, a chess master and a [...]

Steven Gubser, a Princeton theoretical physicist who did groundbreaking work in trying to unite the two great fields of physics -- quantum mechanics and general relativity -- as part of [...]

Ann Nelson, a theoretical physicist who helped plug holes and solve contradictions in the Standard Model, the template that forms the backbone of our understanding of fundamental particles and the [...]

Pal Benko, a chess grandmaster who was among the world's best players for two decades, but who gave up his place in the 1969-72 world championship cycle to Bobby Fischer, [...]

Shelby Lyman, a chess master who found fleeting fame in 1972 by hosting an improbably popular show on live television as it followed the historic world championship chess match between [...]

Kary B. Mullis, a biochemist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering a way to analyze DNA easily and cheaply and thus pave the way for major [...]

Byline: Dylan Loeb McClain David J. Thouless, who shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries that used mathematics to explain strange states of matter like superconductivity and superfluidity, [...]

David J. Thouless, who shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries that used mathematics to explain strange states of matter like superconductivity and superfluidity, died on April 6 [...]

The article reports on the victory of Dornmaraju Gukesh, an 18-year-old Indian grandmaster, at the World Chess Champonship in Singapore on December 12, 2024.

Roy J. Glauber, a theoretical physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2005 for using quantum theory to explain the field of optics and how light interacts with matter, [...]

Ruth Haring, a top American chess player in the 1970s and '80s who played for the national women's team in five consecutive Chess Olympiads and became a rare female president [...]

Evgeni Vasiukov, a Russian chess grandmaster who was among the world's best players for more than 15 years and won tournaments in five different decades, but whose career was eclipsed [...]

Evgeni Vasiukov, a Russian chess grandmaster who was among the world's best players for more than 15 years and won tournaments in five different decades, but whose career was eclipsed [...]

Anatoly Lein, a Russian-born American chess grandmaster who was among the world's top 30 players at his peak, won two of the most prestigious tournaments in the United States and [...]

Anatoly Lein, a Russian-born American chess grandmaster who was among the world's top 30 players at his peak, won two of the most prestigious tournaments in the United States and [...]

Richard E. Taylor, a Canadian-born experimental physicist who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize for the discovery of quarks, one of the fundamental particles in the universe, died on Feb. 22 [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWilliam J. Lombardy, who was one of the most talented and promising chess players of his generation, winning titles and accolades while he was still a teenager, but who [...]

William J. Lombardy, who was one of the most talented and promising chess players of his generation, winning titles and accolades while he was still a teenager, but who all [...]

Elias Burstein, a pioneering physicist whose research helped pave the way for the development of silicon semiconductors, died on June 17 at his home in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was [...]

Elias Burstein, one of the pioneers in the optical physics of solids, whose research into the photoionization of impurities in silicon helped pave the way for the development of silicon [...]

Arthur Bisguier, a largely self-taught chess grandmaster who brought a native Bronx brashness to his style of play in defeating some of the game's greatest players while finding mostly frustration [...]

Hans Berliner, a former world champion of correspondence chess who won one of the greatest games ever played on his way to the title and later became a pioneering developer [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMark Taimanov, a virtuoso pianist and former Soviet chess champion whose lopsided loss to Bobby Fischer in 1971 in the quarterfinals of a major chess tournament cost him his [...]

It has been nearly 80 years since the United States could boast that it had the best chess team in the world, but the group it put together this year [...]

Viktor Korchnoi, who was widely considered one of the greatest chess players in history but never captured the world championship in more than 60 years as an elite competitor, died [...]

Byline: DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN Walter Shawn Browne, an aggressive, animated chess grandmaster and six-time United States champion who dazzled spectators with his world-class ability at speed chess, died on Wednesday [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWalter Shawn Browne, an aggressive, animated chess grandmaster and six-time United States champion who dazzled spectators with his world-class ability at speed chess, died on Wednesday in Las Vegas, [...]

Fabiano Caruana, the No. 3 chess player in the world, who has represented Italy for the last 10 years, is switching federations to play for the United States. The United [...]

William A. Ackman, the founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, and Ian Bremmer, the president of the Eurasia Group, are used to commanding center stage and charming [...]

Elite college basketball programs are battling in the N.C.A.A. tournament this weekend to reach the Final Four. For fans of chess, the top four teams are squaring off now. Called [...]

Byline: DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN The United States team that will compete in the World Team Chess Championship next month in Armenia stands no real chance of winning. It is not [...]

The United States team that will compete in the World Team Chess Championship next month in Armenia stands no real chance of winning. It is not sending its three best [...]

This year's Grand Prix was plagued with organizational problems even before the first tournament began last week. Since plans were first announced, the number of tournaments in the series has [...]

The strength of India's player-development program was in evidence last weekend at the World Youth Championships, where Indians won two gold, two silver and two bronze medals. That was twice [...]