It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match ...

A vast global game of geopolitical chess seemed to be hanging in the balance the morning I met with Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess genius whom many regard as the greatest player of all time. What’s ...

Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

SenseRobot manufactures chess and Go robots that independently move pieces with robot arms, recognize game moves, and offer ...

ST. LOUIS — In 1972, Bobby Fischer became the world chess champion in the most-watched chess event in history, a best-of-24-game Cold War match against a Russian grandmaster that routinely jockeyed ...

For the average player, trying to beat the computer at chess (even when you’re just playing on ‘easy’ on your laptop) is a difficult task. But as humans, we take solace in the fact that chess Grand ...

On a late winter afternoon, I joined Scott Russo at the Lancaster Sweet Shoppe, where he holds an open space for anyone interested in playing chess on Wednesday evenings from 4-9 p.m. I warm up with a ...

Jamie Yuccas is a CBS News correspondent based in Los Angeles. Yuccas joined CBS News as a New York-based correspondent for CBS Newspath in August 2015. Her reporting has been featured across all CBS ...

More than a dozen children gather under a canopy in Makoko, the floating slum in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial center. Aged 8 to 18, they are focused on the chess boards before them, calculating moves ...

Decades after crushing it in international tourneys, this CEO still draws on his 3-step thought process behind every chess move to run his international tech company. Years before the notion of ...