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Resonating: DJ Matt Hichens does his thing at the One Park listening bar in Cape Town, known for its curated line-up of local DJs and diverse mix of genres. Photo: Charles Leonard

Discovering Cape Town’s eclectic listening bars, where nightlife is redefined

The popularity of two Cape Town listening bars points to the need for more eclectic music spaces

While sophisticated programs increase the risk of cheating in tournaments, they reveal ever deeper insights to analysts and players. Photo by Peter Gercke/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Rise of the indomitable chess machines

While sophisticated programs increase the risk of cheating in tournaments, they reveal ever deeper insights to analysts and players

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Niemann v Carlsen: Computers have killed the heart and soul of chess

A high-level cheating scandal that is rocking the game demonstrates the insidious takeover of the sport by artificial intelligence-powered machines

Knight to the rescue: Babatunde Onakoya (below), a chess champion himself and the founder of Chess in Slums Africa, met the teenagers living under the Oshodi Bridge when his car ran out of petrol and they helped him. It was then that the idea of the Oshodi Underbridge chess tournament began

Nigerian chess champ lifts the lives of teenagers living under a bridge

Babatunde Onakoya’s actions are being compared with that of Robert Katende from the movie, ‘Queen of Katwe’, thanks to his nonprofit, Chess in Slums Africa

Belgian Femke Van den Driessche became the first cyclist to be charged with “mechanical doping” after one of her back-up bicycles was found to contain a motor.(Getty Images)

The most bizarre cheats in sporting history

Doping bridge players? Cyclist gangs? Some competitors will go to any lengths to win

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‘Berserker’ chess mate quite Uigly

Another Lewis chess piece has been found

Last year

Praggnanandhaa playing like a Grandmaster ‘before he became one’

Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa won the title at an event in northern Italy that ended on Sunday

“As years went by

Slice of life: A cool new voice in gaming

‘In 2012 everyone else was blogging about food and fashion but there was no cool black voice talking about gaming’

Thousands to benefit from chess as a teaching tool

Thousands to benefit from chess as a teaching tool

President Jacob Zuma hopes that an old game will help learners improve their maths skills.

Tensions simmer as Libyan ex-rebels demand a role

No qualms over Gaddafi game, says chess boss

The controversial head of world chess said on Monday he had no qualms about playing Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli while fighting raged across Libya.

The new chess queen

Alexandra Kosteniuk — sometimes dubbed the ”Anna Kournikova of chess” — last month became the 14th women’s world chess champion.

The father who breeds geniuses

Long before his three daughters were born, Hungarian teacher Laszlo Polgar planned that they would grow up to be chess Grandmasters. And they have.