In collaboration with the St. Louis Chess Club, the WashU Chess Club hosted the WashU Rapid and Blitz tournaments on Feb. 8.

The officially sanctioned Soviet chess “king” and “queen” are pieces carved to represent a working man and a peasant woman. The “pawns” bear the insignia of “Pionerki”: a political ...

Karatekin also refers back to MIT many times, including referencing Rybka or “little fish” system developed by an MIT alumnus ...

Maybe you were one of the many people who began playing chess because you watched The Queen’s Gambit during ... and eventually checkmate their king. Don't let them put your king into checkmate.

How does a chess player know which move to say ... both the Rooks together control all the squares of the Black King, resulting in Checkmate! Queen and Knight combination, and Pair of Bishops ...

D Gukesh will need to beat Fabiano Caruana in game 2 of the quarterfinals of the Freestyle Chess Grand Tour to stay alive in ...

The Tata Steel Masters championship sees Gukesh against a resurgent Arjun Erigaisi next — and an Indian champion would be a ...

Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa beat Alexey Sarana of Serbia to register his third straight victory and take his tally to ...

Praggnanandhaa was involved in another Queen’s gambit declined opening. Only this time, he was playing with white pieces.