Antonis Loudaros, a longtime educator and chess coach who founded The Green School’s chess program nearly a decade ago, ...

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces ...

For four days, the Eastern Zone Chess Tournament transformed the Pepito Tey campus of the Las Tunas University into the epicenter of chess in this Cuban region. The event, which awarded four spots in ...

When you start feeling strongly about chess, sooner or later, you develop a style, the same way writers develop a voice, writes Vidya Krishnan. On a splendid November afternoon in Goa, I watched ...

The evolution of the chess queen finds a parallel in rural India, where the “Checkmate Betul” initiative, launched by US-based Avika Shukla, offers free, structured chess training to girls with no ...

Rachel Reeves has been a keen chess player throughout her life but her credentials are now coming under scrutiny - Wenn/Alamy The Old French term “exchequer” comes from the chequered tablecloth on ...

South Oak Cliff High School is known for excellence on the football field, but there's another activity where students excel...chess. "We're on the football team, we're also on the basketball team," ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess prodigy-turned-grandmaster who helped bring the centuries-old game into the digital age through livestreams and online lessons, has died at 29. Naroditsky was considered one ...

When Chess.com launched back in 2007, its co-founders had a few starting advantages: a lifelong love of the game, two prior companies they’d exited a year before, and one very good domain name that ...

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 ...