On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...

A blitz game at the European Women’s Chess Championship quickly turned into one of the most embarrassing moments of the ...

Nigerian chess master and advocate, Tunde Onakoya, has announced that he will be heading to Hong Kong this June to compete in ...

NBA players are spending more time than ever working on the boards -- but we're not talking rebounds.

The Uzbek 20-year-old won first prize unbeaten but his girlfriend, Bibisara Assaubayeva, finished second to the lowest seed in the Women’s Candidates ...

What looked like a dangerous, possibly losing blitz game suddenly turned into a complete reversal after one move was missed. A former Women’s World Championship-level opponent had the pressure, the ...

Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, 35, posed for a selfie with Kazakhstani chess prodigy Alua Nurman, 18, then immediately ...

A weekend of strategy and skill unfolded in Paulshof as the third Khelo India Chess Tournament brought together hundreds of ...

PARIS, March 26 (Reuters) - The chess Candidates tournament opens on Sunday with a throwback feel — eight players, long-time controls and the game in its purest form — but also with a sense that this ...

Chess Mates,' from the Netflix Untold series, digs a little deeper into the chess cheating scandal that created headlines around the world ...

Much of that success is due to the Senate GOP's campaign arm, which spent a whopping $2.1 million on incumbents.