Chess is the world’s favorite board game, with an estimated 605 million players globally, thanks to studies by FIDE and ...

The next generation of chess stars have been benefitting from the wisdom of the game's sharpest minds. The west is home to ...

STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Few chess players enjoy Magnus Carlsen's celebrity status. A grand master at 13, refusing to play an ...

Having cultivated a loyal but small online fanbase which watched him play casual chess, discuss big matches and generally hang out, Nakamura saw his follower count skyrocket as a result of the ...

said his peers at school learned to play chess online. When Grotton was 6 years old, his parents taught him to play over the board. “Everyone at school knows how to play, for the most part ...

said his peers at school learned to play chess online. When Grotton was 6 years old, his parents taught him to play over the board. “Everyone at school knows how to play, for the most part ...

(CNN) — For someone ranked No. 2 in the world, playing competitive games of chess sits curiously low on grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura’s list of priorities. “I look at it as something to do to ...