In chess circles, that name has long carried significant weight. Gary Kasparov became a world chess champion in 1985 and ...

A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still ...

But there’s a wide gulf between the math used to optimize fourth-down decisions and a voiced AI agent telling you to look out ...

Chess Games: 1-4:30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Chilson Senior Center, 700 E. Fourth St., Loveland. The community ...

Special Edition” There was nothing special about the game itself, “Atari Chess,” which was released in 1979 for the Atari 2600 game console. A 4k game at a t ...

Girls play in a 2021 chess competition in Mazar-e-Sharif, capital of the northern Balkh province, Afghanistan. Girls and women had been encouraged to learn the game — until the Taliban took ...

Chess in Afghanistan isn't madly followed like cricket or the national game — buzkashi — a polo-like sport, except the jockeys have whips and they have to dash across a field holding the carcass of a ...

A former chess coach says a member of the Taliban vice squad told him: "Playing chess is forbidden. Buying a chess set is forbidden. Even watching it — is forbidden." Why was the game banned?