A few days ago, there was an announcement that the world’s highest rated chess player Magnus Carlsen had just defeated the ...

If you scrunch your eyes up just as an offensive line sets for a play, the outlines of the players look like chess pieces ...

yet it is often said that one of the most difficult tasks in chess is “to win a won game”. It is White’s turn to play. Pragg’s Rook, Queen, and Bishop attack the g7 point around Black’s ...

Some run in the straight lines followed by a rook, some follow the diagonals of a bishop ... “Before a play starts, the pieces are set, this is the position on the chess board,” says Tennessee ...

Part of what makes a good chess player a great chess player is learning from the masters, Don Picard said. It’s a lesson he learned as a player and one that he embraces as head coach of the ...

In the other opening quarter-final games, Magnus Carlsen and Vincent Keymer defeat Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Alireza Firouzja ...

Though he failed to snap his winless run on the seventh and penultimate day of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour event in ...