I sit down across from a confident park chess player who starts the game by saying he does not need his best moves to beat me ...

Chess is currently in the middle of its third boom in popularity in recent years. The ancient sport had its first popularity boom during COVID lockdowns when many people, including prominent streamers ...

The story at the heart of “Checkmate” is a good one, but Ben Mezrich has hustled it into print too quickly. By Dylan Loeb McClain Dylan Loeb McClain has written about chess for 30 years and was the ...

The game of chess conjures up images of a board of 64 squares bathed in warm lamplight: a medieval army of 32 carved pieces standing at rigid attention, and two players sitting opposite, their tense ...

A regular player challenges a chess master - but the real question is: how long can he survive? We test reactions, traps, and pure speed to see how quickly a master can force checkmate. Blood pressure ...