Indian chess prodigy D Gukesh recently defeated World No.1 Magnus Carlsen, days after being labeled a weaker player by the ...

Enter Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian chess grandmaster and five-time world champion, who took an unexpected pit stop during a ...

D Gukesh defeated Magnus Carlsen in the sixth round of Grand Chess Tour Rapid event in Zagreb, Croatia on July 3.

"A chess move can be perceived as brilliant, or creative, when the strategic payoff isn't clear at first, but in retrospect the player had to follow a precise path in gaming out all the ...

Well-executed starting moves in chess can tip a game’s outcome, and players often rely on tried-and-true openers. Those openers may not work well in Chess960, a chess variant that scrambles the ...

Vincent Hubbard played chess in prison as an escape. Now he plays $20 games on the streets of South L.A. and competes in tournaments to find a new path forward.

TRINIDAD and Tobago is currently leading the CARICOM Classic Chess Team Tournament after four rounds. The tournament is being ...

I do fear, though, that, eventually, chess will be played out. Chess games now routinely go 15 moves deep before the novelty [a truly unique chess move], and often more.

The Netflix show about a female chess prodigy in the 1950s and ’60s is one of the best screen adaptations of the game yet. But there are a few wrong moves.