New research using chess960 shows that changing the starting layout can rebalance chess and alter how difficult early ...

About nine months ago Lenard Seawood started the Every Move Counts nonprofit startup to use the game of chess to help improve the lives of children in Stockton. When he was in the Army, stationed in ...

Decades ago, I invented an educational game that resembled our complicated legal system. Because of my experience with this game, I was excited by recent reports that chess has recently become ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Across cultures and generations, the game of chess is a universal language. “Chess is a fight. We are warriors of the mind,” said Pierre, a 60-year-old chess player. “My ...

Ernest Levert Jr. (left) plays chess with Dua waNgure (right) at the Cooperative Chess Cultural Center in Columbus. The space is designed to be inclusive of all races, genders and ethnicities. It’s 4 ...

The death of Daniel Naroditsky exposed the conflicts between the game’s traditional wing and its many online stars.

The “queerest anti-imperialist chess club on earth” is using chess to build a community and provide an entry way into radical politics. About a dozen chess players and observers gathered on the patio ...