Chess is reputed to have been born in India approximately 1,500 years ago, and its evolutionary development is full of color as chess spread from one country to another to become the worldwide game we ...

It follows a weeks of controversy which has thrust the largely niche world of top-level chess into the mainstream. Carlsen, a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and reigning world chess champion, quit the ...

While kings and queens move around the chess board, the game itself was long considered a man’s domain. Ashley Lynn Priore set out to change that reality when she was 14. She continues to expand the ...

Viswanathan Anand admitted that veteran Russian player Garry Kasparov's mind games did affect him during his world chess title defence in Moscow in May. Viswanathan Anand admitted that veteran Russian ...

American Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, 29, has died, leaving the chess community in shock. His mother revealed his deep concern for his dignity as a player, especially after facing cheating ...