Back in the early 1900s, chess players thought they had it all figured out. The rules were simple: grab the center with your pawns first (e4, d4), then develop your pieces. Then along came rebels like ...

Explore the Fried Liver attack in chess with both White and Black pieces. This engaging opening is excellent for beginners, featuring a rapid strategy to fork enemy pieces and potentially win a rook ...

New research using chess960 shows that changing the starting layout can rebalance chess and alter how difficult early ...

TheFIDE Women’s Chess World Cup is among the most grueling of tournaments. It goes on for nearly a month and features more than 100 players, prodigies to world champions, across age and nationalities.

An artificial intelligence can identify entertaining chess moves rather than just winning ones. This could lead to AIs that are more fun to watch or play against, and even offer insights into how we ...

The first round at Wijk aan Zee was delayed for over an hour after protesters dumped coal and unveiled a banner reading ‘no chess on a dead planet’ ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Few chess players ...