Of all the popular board games, chess is perhaps the oldest ... wielded power and could raise armies for a king. So they also played a role in the art of war. Who better to replace a strong ...

In the 1920s, Marcel Duchamp claimed to no longer be making art, and began to devote considerable time to chess. He’d grown up battling with his older brothers, Raymond and Jacques, and in his ...

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen played a groundbreaking game against over 143,000 players worldwide. The match, ...

The world chess championship was evenly poised right ... Playing with black, the game was steered into a variation of the King’s Indian Attack: French, Reversed Grünfeld Variation.

The Chess World Championship is designed to be the ... Anand completely changed his preferred opening from the queen's pawn to the king's pawn prior to the 2008 world championship match against ...

As the highest-rated player and club president, Cambareri is hailed as the chess “king.” When Cambareri began playing chess, for him, it was just “one of those board games.” But it’s ...

Indian grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju is the new world chess champion after a stunning ... the game was steered into a variation of the King’s Indian Attack: French, Reversed Grünfeld Variation.

Indian chess prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju has become the youngest world chess champion ever after defeating defending champion Ding Liren of China. Gukesh’s win on Thursday came in the last game of ...