In chess circles, that name has long carried significant weight. Gary Kasparov became a world chess champion in 1985 and ...

Praggnanandhaa has shared his perspective on the growing preference among chess players for formats other than classical ...

A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still producing champions ...

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick released “2001: A Space Odyssey” and creeped out an entire country with the idea of a future ...

Chess Games: 1-4:30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Chilson Senior Center, 700 E. Fourth St., Loveland. The community ...

Chess is a game of war, of might, and of strategy. It does not rely on luck, only thorough, tactical precision. One wrong move and it can be over. However, if you can orchestrate the pieces ...

Special Edition” There was nothing special about the game itself, “Atari Chess,” which was released in 1979 for the Atari 2600 game console. A 4k game at a t ...

A former chess coach says a member of the Taliban vice squad told him: "Playing chess is forbidden. Buying a chess set is forbidden. Even watching it — is forbidden." Why was the game banned?

Chess in Afghanistan isn't madly followed like cricket or the national game — buzkashi — a polo-like sport, except the jockeys have whips and they have to dash across a field holding the carcass of a ...