It doesn't take long to get addicted to the ancient and complex game of chess. If you've got competent players to spar with, there's a lot to discover about opening gambits and ways to counter them.

India's Olympic medal-winning hockey players swapped their sticks for chess sets as all of them were given an introductory ...

Corrected: A previous version of this article referenced the International Chess Federation acronym as ICF. The acronym is FIDE. There are 25 million kids worldwide who play chess competitively, ...

Every Tuesday, the lunch tables at my son’s school are packed with kids, their shoulders hunched over game boards, deep in thought. There are no video monitors. Not an electronic cable to be found.

Mercer University chess club students lead weekly chess sessions at Roberts Academy to help students with dyslexia strengthen ...

I am merely one episode into The Queen’s Gambit, which means I’m six episodes behind the rest of the world, but even one episode was enough to make a solid case that chess is cool, actually. It is a ...

As a chess grandmaster and a business visionary, I’ve found that the parallels between chess and trade are striking. Both require prescience, flexibility and a profound understanding of complex ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. International Master Awonder Liang considers his next move against fellow International Master Michael Brown (not pictured), of ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (CBS4) – Kids and adults gathered Saturday to play against some of the best chess players in the world. Children as young as 10 competed with international champions who flew in from ...

NORMAL — At 5 years old, Eleanor Schenk already knows when she’s met her match. “I had three pawns and a king, so I had to call it quits,” she reported to her father, Andrew Schenk, following her ...