People have been playing chess for centuries—but a new chess piece found in Norway further reveals the spread of the ancient game to the Nordic region, and provides some intriguing insights about the ...

In Washington Square Park, they don’t agree to draws. The first time I sat down at a black marble table to play one of Manhattan’s celebrated chess hustlers, I weathered the attack and simplified into ...

Artist and sculptor Marcel Duchamp might be most famous for his Modernist painting Nude Descending A Staircase, No. 2, but his true passion may have been chess. After retiring to pursue an almost monk ...

Chess learned as a child teaches how to solve problems, and some kids like it because it helps take away frustration. At Northeastern State University, the summer Science, Technology, Engineering, ...

With a tense draw lasting four hours and 45 moves, Magnus Carlsen on Friday began the latest defense of his World Chess Championship title. The Norwegian grandmaster has been No. 1 in the world for a ...

When Vincent Ng and his teammates from Balboa High School went to chess competitions back in the late '90s, they noticed there were very few competitors from San Francisco. Determined to change that, ...