With an open qualification process that began in April, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship continues the final qualification phase as it plays ...

From a Daniel Libeskind–designed board to one inspired by Man Ray, these chess sets would check-mate any competition, in terms of style.

Chess has a reputation for being cold and stodgy. Shelby Lyman did not.

Sterling Heights officials rolled out an oversized chess/checkerboard this week on the side of the city's library, the latest in a series of outdoor amenities for the ...

Youths hone strategy at Chess Wizards K-8 Scholastic Chess Day Camp at Waunakee Village Center.

UCLA football coach Chip Kelly brought in a mind-set strategist at the start of spring practice to teach chess to his players. The players have embraced it.

Russian chess legend Anatoly Karpov unable to get U.S. visa, friend says.

On Sunday, the 16-year-old Iranian chess prodigy GM Alireza Firouzja weathered a seven-hour barrage of tough opponents to reach the quarterfinals of the ...

Levon Aronian said before the 2019 Sinquefield Cup that he wanted to be the first to win both it and the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz in the same year. He took care ...

Saturday's Group D finale was only the start of an action-packed weekend in the PRO Chess League Summer Series. The Montreal Chessbrahs completed their ...

WOODBURY — Youngsters taking part in this week's chess camp at Old Town Hall got more than just a few pointers on the “game of kings.” They also received ...

Mr. Lyman was a high-ranked player who was drafted to provide live commentary of the celebrated chess match in 1972. The show became an improbable hit.

Karpov has been helping train top young U.S. chess players at the Chess Max Academy for the past two years.

Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News joined me on the radio show on Tuesday to talk about his prediction that Oregon State will beat Oklahoma State.

Getting 5.5% return on your money will satiate most long-term investors, but not many chess fans. After day three of the 2019 Sinquefield Cup, a field that now ...

Auditions for "Chess" the musical will be held by appointment beginning at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9 and Tuesday, Sept. 10, at PM & L Theatre in Antioch.

World champion Magnus Carlsen loses 10 speed games in St Louis.

Inmates from the Cook County jail in Chicago just competed in the first international online chess tournament of its kind. NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with their ...

Jason Liang, the 12-year-old son of Clarkson professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Chunlei Liang, took home the gold this week in the 2019 ...

Fabiano Caruana nearly won a world championship in November, and he now says he wants nothing more than to get another shot at unseating Magnus ...

While chess players are hardly known for doing magazine spreads, several female players do pull off the feat of looking amazing staring at a board.

The first officially recognized live and online Fischer Random Chess Championship is heating up this summer as the world's best players hope to advance on ...

Former New York public-school student Alex Lenderman, one of the world's top chess players, mastered the game and embraced the Christian faith in the ...

An amateur chess player with a national rating of 1512, who had raised suspicion due to strong results at recent tournaments, was caught carrying a phone ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world champion, lost 10 speed games in St Louis and now has only two days to recover before the start of the Sinquefield Cup.

University professor Dr. Pippin Barr has made the version of chess they play in hell, and I love it. All conventional strategy is gone and every time you think ...

HAYS — Sometimes attaining a goal can be a struggle, but all one needs is a single opportunity for a breakthrough moment.For Hays teen Sheena Zeng, that ...

Watch this video to see American chess prodigy, Fabiano Caruana, take on a Tesla Model 3's computing system in a head-on game of chess. Will the computer ...

FAIRBORN — Fairborn will soon be home to a chess tournament.The 2019 Fairborn Skyhawk Scholastic Chess Tournament is slated to take place Saturday, A.

Puzzle Rushers, rejoice! For today we added two new modes! You can think of them as time controls for Rush! Puzzle Modes 3 min Don't have time for a ...

The summer season may be nearing a close, but the “Summer of Chess” at the St. Louis Chess Club is in full force. For the next three weeks, the leading.

On Sunday, Russian top GM Ian Nepomniachtchi outlasted 15 opponents to reach the quarterfinals of the 2019 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess ...

Young chess fans from all over the world now have a chance to become a world-record holder. ChessKid and GM Judit Polgar are teaming up to set the all-time ...

The PRO Chess League Summer Series group stage comes to an end on Saturday, and with the Montreal Chessbrahs clinching first place in Group D, the ...

Jets' new running back Le'Veon Bell says the lessons he has learned on the chessboard have helped him on the football field.

Grand Chess Tour coverage continues on Chess.com as the highly-anticipated Sinquefield Cup kicks off Saturday, August 17 at 11 a.m. PDT (8 p.m. CEST) ...

Our President is telling us that as Jews, if we vote for Democrats we are traitors. This is the same Donald Trump who claims to be our best friend and.

Sarah Momanyi is one of over a third of Kenyans without a proper birth certificate — a major setback for her ambitions.

Speed Chess Championship qualifier action resumes today with an invitational Speed Chess qualifier, a tournament featuring the top eight blitz and bullet ...

The Sivas Buruciye International Open Chess Tournament-A, which began on August 19 in Turkey, refused to finance well-known Armenian chess player Maria ...

Tesla cars can now take on human players in a game of chess, thanks to a software update it pushed out to vehicles last month. Its programmers likely didn't ...

Tesla is making a new game available to its vehicle owners, with a roll-out starting today. The company started pushing out a new “Arcade” app for its in-car ...

Hey chess lovers! It's time again to look back at the month that was. As always, the product-development team kept things humming with new features, bug fixes, ...

Pippin Barr (previously) writes, "I have a history of making variations on existing games (see also: PONGS, BREAKSOUT, SNAKISMS), and Chesses (source, ...

Existential questions of the chessboard, plus explosive dogs, the world's oldest stew and avocados in crisis in Feedback's weekly round-up from the world of ...

If you have seen the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, you may remember one of the Washington Square Park hustlers who held a sign offering a photograph ...

Ebenezer Bajela Kid wonder Osadebe Emmanuel has been tipped to dominate the chess world in the next few years after his heroics. Emmanuel is a re...

While analysts continue to compare the President's political strategy to a game of "three-dimensional chess," on Sunday Washington State Attorney General Bob ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Chess players from all over the world were facing off in a first of its kind tournament on Tuesday, in a place you might not expect: jail.

When we talk about blitz chess, we usually think about tactics, blunders and opening surprises that force our opponents to spend their precious seconds. I doubt ...

Viswanathan Anand split the point with USA's Wesley So after missing a complex winning continuation in the fourth round of the Sinquefield Cup chess ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A unique two-day chess tournament will be held at Cook County Jail in Chicago this week. The Cook County Sheriff's Office is hosting what it ...

The chess club is abuzz. It's week four of a four-week tournament, and every one of tonight's 10 matches looks like it could go 60 moves deep into an endgame.

Chess News: India's current generation of chess players is one of the best in history of the sport, says former world champion Vladimir Kramnik. Since 2000 ...

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Thanks to a score of 2.5/3 on Monday, Ian Nepomniachtchi is the leader after five rounds at the Levitov Chess Week in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The last two ...

PARKERSBURG - The 26th Annual Parkersburg Chess Tournament will be held Sunday at the Blennerhasset Hotel, part of the Parkersburg Homecoming ...

After spending three weeks as the grandmaster-in-residence at the St. Louis Chess Club, I have come to the realization that the future of chess, as an.

Surya Shekhar Ganguly has called for a change in the integrated coaching system in Bengal in order to improve the quality of players being produced by the ...

The reigning Chess.com Computer Chess Champion Stockfish continues to assert itself as the greatest chess engine of all time, recently picking up a win in ...

Ian Nepomniachtchi edged out Alexander Grischuk on tiebreak to win the Levitov Chess Week in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Both players scored 5/7, but ...

A man who was incarcerated when he was 14 years old for possession of a gun turned his life around three years ago to help his community through the game ...

Fourteen inmates at the Cook County jail took on the world this week at a first-of-its-kind international chess tournament matching teams from detention facilities ...

Michael Adams won his seventh British championship at Torquay where several English youngsters put in impressive performances.

Chess players can picture a tournament victory 1000 times in their head. One can prepare, have a clear idea of what you want to accomplish, and show up to.

In one of the most anticipated rematches in Chess.com history, team Chess.com (GM Robert Hess and IM Danny Rensch) will square off against team ...

SUPERIOR, Wis.- It was a meeting of the minds at University of Wisconsin Superior's Yellowjacket Union for the 8th Annual Twin Ports Open Chess Tournament.

The Grand Chess Tour action in St. Louis moves into the classical phase with the start of the Sinquefield Cup from August 17th to 28th. Two decisive results were ...

The Square Off Chess Set is an Internet connected smart chess board with automated pieces that lets you compete against players anywhere in the world.

I am sure that you've encountered the situation where your opponent played an opening move that breaks all known chess rules. What is your second thought ...

When 12-year-old Mountain View resident Ruiyang Yan narrowly qualified for the U.S. Girls Junior Chess Championship, she set her expectations cautiously ...

By Tris Dixon - IT seems a week does not go by without a few more twists and turns in the heavyweight division. Former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua ...

A Napier Central School chess team is off to the national primary schools championships with a budding star aged just 6 years old. Eyvind Frojvik-Moberg, is a ...

On Saturday, Wei Yi defeated Jeffery Xiong in an armageddon tiebreak game to be crowned champion of the 2019 Junior Speed Chess Championship.

Kim Grizzard. Friday, July 26, 2019. Jim Harris spent more than an hour in the waiting area of the VA clinic on Thursday, but he wasn't looking down at his watch.

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is well on its way to going live with an actual industrial-scale blockchain use case, and not just a glorified database.

Chess is a game of seemingly endless complexity, each new match expanding into an intricate weave of strategies, gambits, and countermoves. It only gets ...

Wei Yi will be Jeffery Xiong's opponent in the final of the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship. The Chinese GM beat Alireza Firouzja 14.5-11.5 in ...

The world's second youngest GM R. Praggnanandhaa (14) from India, will be taking part at the World Youth chess championship, to be held here from October 1 ...

What if an AI could learn to play Chess based only on human game commentary? That interesting task has been tackled by SentiMATE, a new Chess algorithm ...

For the second day in succession, it was six draws in Saint Louis at the Sinquefield Cup. That enabled Vishy Anand to continue to lead as the only winner from ...

Under the trees in Market Square, an elusive character named Rob is the king of a United Nations of chess players.

World champion Magnus Carlsen has a bad day at the office.

Donald Trump won't be going to Denmark in 10 days. Because the Danes won't sell him Greenland.

The Community Chess Club based in west Swindon is a club which is thriving.

Google's artificial-intelligence researchers have created a football simulator for training the next generation of machine-learning algorithms.

Cecil Locke is the artist behind Touch & Go Chess Party, an outdoor chess table set up outside the Art Institute of Chicago six days a week. Only 52 inches ...

While Michael Adams and David Howell close on a Sunday showdown for the British championship, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa has become the youngest ...

Rapper & CEO of Roc Nation Jay-Z recently entered in a partnership with the NFL to enhance the NFL's live game experiences and to amplify the league's social ...

Machines that appreciate “brilliant” and “dumb” chess moves could learn to play the game—and do other things—more efficiently.

Russia is weak, but its leader makes the most of the West's disarray and indecisiveness.

The Indian chess prodigy Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu made history this week to become one of the youngest winners of the traditional Copenhagen Open, ...

Under the bright noon sun, retired family physician Tim Empkie opened an umbrella over one of the chess boards on the city's new $22-million walkway over the ...

Being the tournament favorite is never easy. You have a target on your back, and every other participant is gunning for you. There are times that the top.

The British championship has its closing rounds at Torquay this weekend, and armchair internet spectators can view the action, which includes grandmaster and ...

Fabiano Caruana unleashed some unused World Championship preparation on Levon Aronian and was able to join Vishy Anand in the Sinquefield Cup lead ...

The 2019 Irish Chess Championship was a great success, with intrigue remaining until the last move on board 1 in the final round. In the end, luck was on the ...

Edenwald Old Timers Day and Young Kings & Queens Chess Club members and residents enjoyed this year's Edenwald Day Flag Football.

Chess taught Orrin Hudson more than just how to win a game; it taught him how to succeed in life.As a child, Hudson started going down a wrong path – mainly ...

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) — The chess capital of the United States is welcoming in the top players in the world to town.