Chess Superstar Battles Chess Sex Symbol The World Chess Championship, underway in India, features a faceoff between the sport's heavyweights. Guest host Don Gonyea can't help but inject politics ...

When Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen lean over the chessboard at Chennai’s Hyatt Regency on Nov. 9 for Game 1 of the World Chess Championship, it will mark the coming together of the sport ...

The second game in the Professional Chess Association world championship between title holder Garry Kasparov and challenger Viswanathan Anand ended in a draw after 29 moves yesterday. The first ...

Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88. Mr. Spassky faced off against American grandmaster Bobby Fischer of the United States in Siegen, West Germany, in ...