Chess enthusiasts gathered in Ireland’s Pub Feb. 28 for Campus Recreation’s Friendly Chess Tournament. Knights, bishops and ...

To casual observers, chess could seem boring. To Ben Foley, chess is an exciting game that can impart many valuable lessons. He says it teaches kids to concentrate, exercise patience, think critically ...

On 23 February, the Cyprus Open Chess Championship ended in Nicosia. It was attended by 90 players, 52 of whom were juniors. Chess is becoming more and more popular in Cyprus and its national team is ...

Spassky was nearly as brilliant. His was a household name among those who who grew up playing chess. It was a game that ...

In a rare double unlikely to be replicated, the new world chess champion is an 18-year-old grandmaster from the Indian city ...

“If he continues to love chess the way he does now ... bishop diagonally and places it five squares away from the black king. It’s a check. His rival, four-year-old Anish Sarkar, sitting ...

The first LEGO chess set was part of the Knight's Kingdom, an expansion of the LEGO Castle brand. It featured two Armies: the Shadow Knights, led by evil sorcerer Vladek, and the Kingdom of Morcia, ...

Games are fun. You might have played a card game like Go Fish. Checkers might have been an early game you learned. Monopoly ...

His 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer is considered one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well ...

By Andrey AvsitidiyskyFreedom24 Chess Academy has opened in Limassol, run by the international master who defeated Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen.The Academy was officially inaugurated in ...

A tactic used in a 1960 victory over countryman David Bronstein — in which Mr. Spassky sacrificed a rook to open an attack on Bronstein’s king — was copied in a chess scene early in the 1963 ...