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NEW YORK—Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body agreed to loosen a dress code that got him fined ...

Commentary Two years ago, with regard to male athletes identifying as female, the competitive sport world presented a ...

LIPPSTADT, Germany—Hussain Besou was just four when he started asking his father to teach him chess, hovering around ...

Long before the internet, families enjoyed quality time with each other over these classic board games. They're still ...

A study of an international chess tournament has revealed that wearing a face mask significantly reduced the average ...

“Checkmate!” concludes a chess match and separates the victor from the vanquished. Yet the ending of the chess ...

A Russian chess robot broke a child's finger during a match in Moscow, officials said. A video of ...

A 16-year-old Indian chess grandmaster on Feb. 22 became the youngest chess player ever to defeat world champion ...

Commentary Instead of making students memorize a bunch of useless facts, we need to help them think like ...

Garry Kasparov, a Russian former world chess champion and now chair of the Human Rights Foundation, has told ...

Tani Adewumi was just in first grade when Boko Haram knocked on his father's door and turned their ...

In 2014, a chess competitor collapsed during his final match of the Chess Olympiad in Norway. Within hours, ...

Maurice Ashley was 14 when he saw a high school friend playing chess and challenged him to a ...

The Facebook Messenger app, in all its ubitiquity, has a secret. The app has one of the oldest ...

A deep learning artificial intelligence algorithm figured out how to play chess better than most humans in just ...

OTTAWA, Canada—At 14 years old, Qiyu Zhou is one of those children parents like to imagine they will ...

Tired of playing the same sport over and over again? Here are 7 strange sports to try and ...

Yes, it's debatable, but chess is officially recognized as a sport by International Olympic Committee. And how about...

Check out how current chess design came about.

Michael Propper, the co-director of NYC Chess, Inc., is not particularly good at playing chess.