Every so often a chess piece is moved from one square to another, a hand strikes a clock and the action is recorded in a ...

Chess instruction launches on Android phones, and Duolingo customers with iPhones will soon be able to play chess against each other. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content ...

Magnus Carlsen, the chess grandmaster who has become the public face of the game, was forced into a draw after an intense game played over 6 1/2 weeks — and it only took some 143,000 opponents working ...

Here's a statistical challenge worthy of a grandmaster: How do you create an accurate ranking system when the best players ...

World No 1 Magnus Carlsen, who had won the inaugural Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour last year, defeated Nodirbek ...

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, ...