At the British Chess Championships, one game sees an age gap of 87 years amid a boom period for the game.

The new variation on chess -- called "the strangest sport in the world" -- will be broadcast on The Ocho (8 a.m. ET on Aug. 8 ...

Chess has a reputation for cold calculation, but the research tells a warmer story. A study published in Frontiers in ...

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Chess is no longer just an old-school pastime — young men and women are making the game their own. The big picture : The pandemic, pop culture and a wave of content creators have turned a ...

July 21 (Reuters) - World number one Magnus Carlsen will compete in November's pilot event of the FIDE-approved Total Chess World Championship Tour, organisers said on Tuesday. The November 10-21 ...

Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In the ...