NORMAL - As Bekah Nielsen sat at a checkered board-game Saturday morning she used one of her strategies to gain the edge over her competitor.

In October, Brogan, 16, won the 2022 Junior State Chess Championship title. He and other players competed in five rounds of chess, each lasting two to three hours.

May 5—School cafeterias are often echo chambers of laughter and mayhem. But the cafeteria at Manchester Memorial High School on Saturday, site of the state's first Granite Gambit Chess Festival ...

It’s not just chess that’s capturing people’s interest. Since opening about a year ago, Board to Death Games has seen a boom ...

When two of the most advanced AI models lost to a 1979 chess game, it exposed how sounding smart isn’t the same as actually ...

Checkmate, Anywhere: How ChessUp 2 Revives the Thrill of the Game This smart chess board blends the tactile joy of in-person play with the global reach of online opponents.

Last fortnight, we discussed ‘Pattern Recognition in Chess’, aided by basic checkmate patterns like the Back Rank Checkmate with the rook and the Queen.

In the game of chess, every single move contributes to the overall outcome. All 16 pawns—the queen, knights, bishops and others—provide unique value to a player. The queen is the most powerful ...

The rivalry between two chess players turned almost deadly when one player was accused of poisoning a game board with liquid mercury.

The idea that chess can help a nation’s fortunes stretches back at least a century.

The CCHS Chess Club has introduced a newfound popularity and interest in the intense game of chess, bringing elements of competition and togetherness among students. Junior Jaewon Kim shifted in his ...