Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from chess’s global governing body.

Unrelated to Franklin but an interesting coincidence is the Franklin Chess Center. Inside are school agers who, over the past several years, have taken a keen interest in the game of chess.

Russian world chess champion Boris Spassky, center, is followed by a member of the Soviet Delegation to the world chess championships in Reykjavik, Iceland on July 5, 1972, after they walked out of a ...

the president and founder of the U.S. Chess Center, a D.C.-area chess school. Everyone agrees it’s an exciting time for chess. Some players, though, worry still about maintaining interest in a game ...