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 ...
In the game of chess, a rook can move as many spaces as it can in one direction. Or, it can sit stone-still and guard the pieces around it, potentially holding its ground for an entire match — or ...
Reigning world champion D Gukesh termed his blunder against Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the ongoing Tata Steel Chess tournament as an ‘unexplainable one’.