Opinion

'England need players able to change tactics during games'

In his latest BBC Sport column, England World Cup winner Matt Dawson discusses what went wrong in England's record home defeat by Ireland and what areas could be improved for the final two rounds of ...

What do curlers do when they're not at the Olympics?

Lifting weights like sprinters, strategising like chess players, and fuelling like Tour de France cyclists, the life of a Team GB curler.

'I started out sharing old weapons - but made three Olympics'

Anjali Bhagwat is presented with the lifetime achievement award at the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year ceremony in Delhi.

Homemade chess board moves its own pieces. And wins.

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

Fishbowl's developers created the game as a "ray of hope" in the pandemic

For some, the COVID pandemic can feel like a fever dream: six years have passed, and yet sometimes it feels like it just happened yesterday. Fishbowl, a slice-of-life story about a woman named Alo, ...

AI reconstructed a lost Roman board game from a mysterious limestone slab - and now you can play it

Researchers couldn't figure out this ancient Roman game. So they let AI play it thousands of times until it cracked the code.