Corrected: A previous version of this article referenced the International Chess Federation acronym as ICF. The acronym is FIDE. There are 25 million kids worldwide who play chess competitively, ...

I am merely one episode into The Queen’s Gambit, which means I’m six episodes behind the rest of the world, but even one episode was enough to make a solid case that chess is cool, actually. It is a ...

Okay, sorry for the weird question. But, I play a little chess, and one of the things that vaguely annoys me is that chess engines are kinda slow. Suppose I want to analyze a position to a certain ...

You don’t get to be the world No. 1-ranked chess player without plotting multiple moves ahead. “I have a simple rule in life, if you are to fight the champ in anything – do it virtually,” quipped ...

Like many of us, Danny Strong watched a concert version of the musical Chess, and wasn't entirely sure what was happening. But rather than giving up on the complicated plot and letting the rock score ...

Between studying moves with tutors in India and New York, Oliver Boydell has homework (with video game breaks, of course). By John Leland The problem with contemporary chess, said Oliver Boydell, who ...

On 23 February, the Cyprus Open Chess Championship ended in Nicosia. It was attended by 90 players, 52 of whom were juniors. Chess is becoming more and more popular in Cyprus and its national team is ...

The list of those who didn’t binge Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” late last year is a lot shorter than those who did. And to make sure its leading lady, Anya Taylor-Joy, was believable as a chess ...