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Significant Digits For Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. $572 million In a “landmark ruling” in a lawsuit relating to the opioid crisis, an Oklahoma judge ruled that...
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Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. $30,000 party Attorney General William Barr booked a 200-person holiday party at the Presidential Ballroom of...
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Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 10 candidates The next Democratic presidential debate — scheduled for Sept. 12 in Houston — will feature just 10...
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Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 30, 2019
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. This is my final column as your digit wrangler. It’s been a pleasure — thank you for reading. 408,000 men and...
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A Peaceful (But Not Peaceful) Transition Of Power In Riddler Nation
Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, we offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Before we puzzle this week, some Riddler news: This is my final...
View ArticleRemembering Alex Trebek, The Man With All The Answers
For decades, I’ve tuned into the trivia game show “Jeopardy!” for the facts. On Sunday, the show lost its judicious leader, Alex Trebek, who died at age 80 after a battle with cancer. Trebek had...
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Magnus Carlsen Is Back To Defend His Chess Title
This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. It has been 1,090 days since the last World Chess Championship. In the meantime, the ancient game has seen a modern resurgence, a...
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The World Chess Championship Opens With An Endless Knight-Rook Dance
This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. With a tense draw lasting four hours and 45 moves, Magnus Carlsen on Friday began the latest defense of his World Chess Championship...
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A Chess Player Almost Won A Chess Game
This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. The auditorium in Dubai hosting the 2021 World Chess Championship is reminiscent of the American Museum of Natural History in New York...
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Neither Grandmaster Yields In A Chess Tug Of War
This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. A game, the philosopher Bernard Suits wrote, is “the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.” It’s one thing to shove a...
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The World’s Best Chess Players Are Too Good To Win
This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. Since Friday, Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi have been spending their days in a glass box in Dubai, vying for...
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Some Humble Suggestions To Save Chess From Itself
This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. Your diligent chess correspondent spent the morning watching some chess. just watching some chess #CarlsenNepo...
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How The Longest Game In World Chess Championship History Was Won
This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. Ian Nepomniachtchi took off his blazer on the third move, a record-fast time, and he played with a captured chess piece like it was a...
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Another Draw Is A Win For Magnus Carlsen
This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. A peaceful draw was widely predicted for Saturday in the World Chess Championship — a respite just hours after Game 6, the longest...
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One Misplaced Pawn May Have Just Clinched The World Chess Championship
This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. We didn’t see much of Ian Nepomniachtchi on Sunday, though the Russian grandmaster is nominally competing for the World Chess...
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After Another Blunder, The World Chess Championship Is Off The Rails
This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. The Russian grandmaster desperately needed a win. After losses in an all-time classic Game 6 and a howler in Game 8, in which he...
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Brilliance And Blunders Have Defined The World Chess Championship
This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. Magnus Carlsen of Norway continued his unrelenting march toward the world chess title on Wednesday, holding his challenger, Ian...
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Magnus Carlsen Wins The 2021 World Chess Championship
This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. Magnus Carlsen of Norway successfully defended his world chess championship title on Friday, extending an unbroken reign atop the game...
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The World Chess Championship In 5 Charts
This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. The 2021 World Chess Championship ended last week with Magnus Carlen of Norway, the world No. 1, defending his title against...
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We Taught Computers To Play Chess — And Then They Left Us Behind
Oliver Roeder is a journalist, author and games player. He is a former senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, where he covered the World Chess Championship and other gaming pursuits. The following is...
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