What begins as a normal tournament chess game quickly turns into a sharp tactical battle. As the pieces develop, one side finds a sequence that puts enormous pressure on the opponent’s king and weak ...

Since 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue beat world champion and chess legend Garry Kasparov in a six-game match, chess players have accepted that machines are stronger at chess. We have taken some comfort ...

Chess has enjoyed a sharp rise in popularity in the 2020s. The spike began during COVID lockdowns and increased when Chess.com created its first PogChamps tournament on Twitch in 2020, which proved ...

Chess is often regarded as the game that is most commonly associated with intelligence and strategy. Science has in fact proven that chess players have more cognitive skill than non-chess players. But ...

LET'S CATCH UP on some world chess news, which happily involves an American grandmaster we watched grow up in N.J. and N.Y. tournaments. GM Hikaru Nakamura won the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters for the ...