Media

Media Coverage

The Sunday Times, Daily Mail, The Sun, The Telegraph, Observer, USA Today, Futurity, ScienceDaily, Phys.org, New in Chess, Chess.com, New Scientist.

Interviews

BBC Radio 5 Live, Izvestia, Plus Magazine, The Indian Express, Chess.com, ChessBase.com, New in Chess, and World Chess Show (Episode 4).

Some links may be broken. Please contact me if needed.

Selected Media Links

• Aligning Games and Sets in Determining Tennis Matches. New York University, 12 January 2026.
• 2025 Year In Review by Tarjei J. Svensen. Chess.com, 9 January 2026.
• Magnus Carlsen Hits 2900 As Freestyle Chess Introduces New Ratings. Chess.com, 7 July 2025.
• The Clash: Carlsen, Gukesh, and the Future of Chess - The World Chess Show (Episode 4). World Chess, May 2025.
• Norway Chess 2025: Predictions, Schedule, Dates, Timings, Telecast And Live Streaming Details. Times Now, 26 May 2025.
• 6 Things We Learned, 1 Thing We Already Knew - Grenke Chess Freestyle Open. Chess.com, 22 April 2025.
• Magnus Carlsen wins Grenke Freestyle Chess 2025, sets NEW RECORD. Chessdom, 21 April 2025.
• Indian Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa got highest game intelligence score in 2024. Onmanorama, 3 January 2025.
• “A new standard has been set”. Freestyle Chess, 2025.
• New in Chess (pp. 29-32, 2025 #5), by Peter Heine Nielsen.
• New in Chess (p. 59, 2025 #5), Carlsen’s CPR even better than Fischer’s, by Mehmet Mars Seven.
• Magnus and Nakamura WON Norway Chess because they played more like humans. Norway Chess, 2025.
• Incredible FINAL MOMENTS - Gukesh takes down Magnus Carlsen in rollercoaster game | Norway Chess 2025. Norway Chess, 2025.
• He Made History. GothamChess, 2025.
• Data-based prediction: Gukesh still has 50% chance to win World Chess Championship, provided he avoids tie-breaks. The Indian Express, 10 December 2024.
• Ding Escapes In Game 7 Thriller To Tie Gukesh At Halfway. Chess.com, 3 December 2024.
• Gukesh vs Ding Liren is the most precise World Championship. Chessdom, 1 December 2024.
• Discussion about the level of play at the World Championship match in Singapore. ChessBase, December 2024.
• Complete Performance Rating (CPR) instead of Tournament Performance Rating (TPR). Chessdom, 3 October 2024.
• Vaishali Enters Top 10 With 3rd Win In A Row. Chess.com, 18 July 2024.
• “Caring Less” Helps Arjun Erigaisi Continue Rise With Win In Armenia. Chess.com, 19 June 2024.
• Numbers back Gukesh’s bid to be youngest-ever world champion, unless the battle versus Ding Liren heads to tiebreaks. The Indian Express, 3 June 2024.
• What is Game Theory in Chess? | Norway Chess 2024. Norway Chess, 2024.
• New in Chess (pp. 45-46, 2024 #4), by Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam.
• Hikaru Nakamura the fighter - expressed in different numbers, by Mehmet Ismail. New in Chess (blog), 27 July 2023.
• A new chess variant by Tyler Cowen. Marginal Revolution, 2 Aug 2021.
• Checkmate for “unfair” chess games: black gets two moves to start. The Times, 1 Aug 2021.
• Puzzle 120: Will Ann or Bob win this unusual game of catch-up? (New Scientist Catch-Up game), by Mehmet Ismail. New Scientist, 30 June 2021.
• Penalty shootouts are unfair. Here’s how they could be fairer. Euronews, 2 July 2018.
• New rules could make football fairer. King’s College London, 4 May 2018.
• The Future of Baseball: Speeding up a slow game. metro, 27 February 2018.
• Philly-Based Journal Publishes Paper On Baseball Rule Changes. Patch, 23 February 2018.
• Making penalties fairer. Plus Magazine, 21 February 2018.
• Is Baseball Dying? If So, Here’s One Plan to Save It. Observer, 20 February 2018.
• Nieuwe voetbalregel getest tijdens jeugdvoetbaltoernooi MVV Maastricht. MVV.nl, 31 May 2017.
• Mathematicians Serve Up a New Approach to Racquet Sports. Bryn Mawr, 22 March 2017.
• Game Theorists Devise “Catch-Up Rule” to Make Sports Contests More Competitive - and Exciting to Watch. NYU, 14 February 2017.
• Game theorists devise “catch-up rule” to make sports more competitive, and exciting, to watch. ScienceDaily, 13 February 2017.
• New rule makes sports more competitive and fun to watch. UM Talkin’Business, 10 February 2017.
• New rule makes sports more competitive and fun to watch. Maastricht University, 9 February 2017.
• Igy lehetne igazsagosabb a tizenegyesparbaj. Bumm, Hvg.hu, 4 July 2016. Second link.
• El secreto matematico que ayudo a Chile en los penales. Telefe Noticias, 29 June 2016.
• Un secreto matematico ayudo a Chile en los penales. Taringa!, MSN.com, Infobae, 28 June 2016. MSN link. Infobae link.
• El secreto matematico que ayudo a Chile a vencer a Argentina en los penales. SNT, 28 June 2016.
• How to make penalty shoot-outs fairer. Maastricht University, 15 June 2016.
• “Loterij” penalty’s kan veel eerlijker. De Limburger, 7 June 2016.
• SBE PhD candidate is making football more fair, with math. UM Talkin’Business, 11 April 2016.
• A Way to Even the Odds in Soccer Shootouts. USA Today, April 2016 (Vol. 144, No. 2851).
• Mathematicians say they found the fair way to take penalties. Proto Thema, 29 March 2016.
• Penalty shoot-outs: Could the “catch-up” rule make them fairer?. BBC Radio 5 Live, 29 March 2016.
• Are penalty shoot-outs about to change dramatically?. The42, 29 March 2016.
• Pesquisadores querem mudar a forma das disputas de penaltis. O Globo, 28 March 2016.
• Penalty shoot-outs could be made fairer by switching kicking order. The Telegraph, 28 March 2016.
• Penalty trick: Boffins in “catch-up” plan to make football spot-kicks fairer. The Sun, 27 March 2016.
• NYU and Maastricht University game theorists propose soccer rule change. The Daily Pennsylvanian, 23 March 2016.
• The Rigged Lottery of Penalties?. FourFourTwo, 22 March 2016.
• The rule change that could make penalty shoot-outs fair: Researchers call for football rule change. Daily Mail, 11 March 2016.
• Game theorists say this rule would make soccer fairer. Futurity, 11 March 2016.
• Game theorists devise way to even the odds in soccer shootouts. PHYS.ORG, 11 March 2016.
• Game Theorists Devise Way to Even the Odds in Soccer Shootouts. NYU, 10 March 2016.
• Penalty shootouts as you know them may be about to change forever. Dream Team FC.