Antonis Loudaros, a longtime educator and chess coach who founded The Green School’s chess program nearly a decade ago, ...

In chess, as in life, you are bound to make some mistakes. That was the message Ed Bourgeois, access and outreach coordinator for the Minnesota State Chess Association, had for 32 inmates at the ...

Boris Spassky’s contributions to chess are commemorated through his remarkable games, including his rejuvenation of the Breyer defence and mastery of various strategies. Despite shifting from Soviet ...

He sacrificed his grandmaster dreams to become one of the game’s most popular personalities. Levy RozmanCredit...Chris Buck for The New York Times Supported by By Reid Forgrave “Ladies and gentlemen!” ...

Chess is a centuries-old game that’s enjoying new popularity with young people. The renewed interest has created demand for more online content, and international chess master and commentator Levy ...

Not too long ago, chess-playing computers—the supervillain of many a human grandmaster—were as intimidating physically as they were virtually: bulky, sturdy, sleek, jet-black monoliths in miniature, ...

Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In the ...

The millennia-old pastime of chess has been enjoying an explosion of interest. Whether people are longing for any engaging hobby to keep themselves sane during the long wait, or they fell prey to a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chess world champion Magnus Carlsen’s company Play Magnus AS has purchased the UK-based chess training platform ...

The best chess game was played between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky in 1851, but the best chess videogames are something else entirely. The rules of chess are simple, but it's one of the ...