Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

Chess has never been just a board game. It has always been a quiet reflection of the world around it. When societies changed, ...

NEW DELHI – A 10-year-old chess prodigy from London has etched her name into history, becoming the youngest female player ever to defeat a grandmaster. Bodhana Sivanandan, just 10 years and five ...

Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Anish Giri and Fabiano Caruana — wait, this isn’t a fun exercise in randomly listing chess stars, ...

Wrong. Because part of the Soviet school of chess lives on through the genius of Magnus Carlsen, who won his ninth World ...

Tucked away in Olympia, where the evergreens stand sentinel and morning fog hangs like nature’s curtain, sits a red building with a bright blue ramp that transforms into a bargain hunter’s paradise ...

Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik has filed a lawsuit against the world chess federation (FIDE) in a Swiss civil court ...

The Baltimore Sun considered a few outstanding scenarios that raise the question: can humanity survive long enough to figure ...

Sitting at his computer in Copenhagen in 2004, he would challenge players from all over the world on one of the first ...

Marc Olsen was just 18 when he started winning money at backgammon. Sitting at his computer in Copenhagen in 2004, he would ...

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