What seemed an innocent joke poll immediately took on an extremely right-wing turn. Ultra-religious folks came out of hiding, offended that the chess website would do such a thing to the precious ...

As birthdays go, Magnus Carlsen’s 26th will take some beating – after a marathon battle, he retained his world chess title and won a “present” worth over $600,000.

He marked his 26th birthday by beating Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin, also 26, with bold, aggressive moves in a series of tiebreakers capping three weeks of the World Chess Championship that ...