The 19-year-old World Champion clinched the Rapid title at Grand Chess Tour 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia, defeating Wesley So in the final round in just 38 moves with white pieces.

Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games Physicist used interaction graphs to show how pieces attack and defend to analyze 20,000 top matches.

In Chess960/Freestyle chess, the starting position of the pieces on the back rank are reshuffled, meaning computer-backed preparations leading to sometimes dull openings are meaningless.