The cliché says good decisions take time. But in professional chess, the opposite pattern keeps appearing. When elite players took longer, their moves were less likely to match the best move ...

Chess spread quickly through feudal Europe, far from its roots in sixth-century India. Here’s how the game of strategy kept ...

In chess, faster decisions are on average of higher quality. This is the conclusion of a study that has just been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team of ...