International Chess Day celebrates the establishment of FIDE on July 20. The 2025 theme, 'Every Move Counts', aligns with ...

The World Chess Hall of Fame & Galleries (WCHOF), the leading chess cultural center in the country, is proud to announce its ...

In the nine-plus months since Derrick Rose retired from the NBA, chess has become a driving force in his life.

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 ...

India’s world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, 19, had created a bang, literally, last month at Stavanger when he defeated Magnus Carlsen on the 35-year-old’s home turf. Images of the Norwegian’s angry ...

In chess circles, that name has long carried significant weight. Gary Kasparov became a world chess champion in 1985 and memorably lost to IBM's Deep Blue more than a decade later. It was, at the time ...

ChatGPT and its friends are great for researching, as assistants, or meme image creators, but if you need actual smarts, what you really want is a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 console. That's the ...

The synergy is intentional — chess as a metaphor for strategy and foresight, and Stavanger as the stage for both boardroom and board game brilliance.

e4 (King's Pawn Opening) tends to start the game with a bang, leading to positions with pieces flying out fast and furious attacks. d4 (Queen's Pawn Opening) is a relatively subtle start, taking a ...

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

But a new "first" in the long history of poisonings was opened this month in the Russian republic of Dagestan, where a 40-something chess player named Amina Abakarova attempted to poison a rival ...