"Magnus Carlsen vs. The World" online chess game ends in a draw, with the grandmaster lauding his 143,000 opponents' "very, ...

And then he got up, with both arms raised and a beaming smile ... Dommaraju Gukesh has now got the chess world at his feet, as their new King.

CAPE ELIZABETH – The King of Maine is a kid. For the first time in the 54-year history of the Maine State Chess Championship, the championship plaque went home with someone who has yet to enter ...

For more than a decade now, University at Buffalo computer science professor Kenneth Regan has been one of the world's foremost experts in a niche subject: The detection of chess cheating.

The world chess championship was evenly poised right ... Playing with black, the game was steered into a variation of the King’s Indian Attack: French, Reversed Grünfeld Variation.

On a rainy afternoon at the Rikers Island Jail Complex in New York City this week, five men and one woman wearing tan uniforms sat in front of chess boards ... who used his king to take Mr ...

White (to move) has three queens against a lone black king, and it’s checkmate in seven moves, but there’s a catch. The queen trio are only allowed to move on the extreme left-hand file from ...

As the highest-rated player and club president, Cambareri is hailed as the chess “king.” When Cambareri began playing chess, for him, it was just “one of those board games.” But it’s ...