For the first time, there will be preliminary rounds for both the general public and university students. The top ten ...

chess has some unexpected quirks. The pieces are named for positions in the royal court, but the most powerful piece – and the most valuable – is not the king, but the queen. A knight and a ...

Magnus Carlsen, a 34-year-old Norwegian, is among the greatest chess players of all time.

The first machine had a vertical board. Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position. The human’s lone black king ...

While Gukesh is out of the quarterfinal, his time in Weissenhaus still continues, as he will battle for the fifth to eighth ...

From clubs to tournaments, classes to casual play, you can find chess games for any level of skill around Kansas City.

Turlov also noted that trust is important in both chess and business: "Trust, much like the king in chess, is the most important thing in our ecosystem. Without trust, everything else falls apart." ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Zoey Tang is currently a junior at Westview High School. The 16-year-old discovered chess through a best friend who introduced her to the school’s chess club. “I started ...

Often compared to chess, xiangqi is a centuries-old board game with deep cultural roots. While both games share the objective of capturing the opponent’s key piece — the general in xiangqi versus the ...