If you are feeling the urge to play chess with all the buzz about the 2024 FIDE World Championships underway or looking to upgrade your current chef sent to something a little different. You might be ...

Vishwanathan Anand began playing chess at six, was Indian champion by 16 and picked up the Grandmaster title one year later. On Dec. 24, the 31-year-old from Madras went on to even greater glory, ...

When Viswanathan Anand became India"s first grandmaster in 1988, chess wasn"t really a thing in India. Cut to 2024, and India now has 85 grandmasters, has won two gold medals in the recently-concluded ...

A few weeks ago, I was out to breakfast with a bunch of my guy friends and my boyfriend, crammed into a leather booth at Orphan Andy's, a diner a couple miles from where I live. We were off school ...

A cell phone is a pretty constant companion for kids at school. It’s a distraction from pesky lectures, a way to talk to friends — and these days, an unstoppable vessel of playing online chess. This ...

Tianhui “Cindy” Jie, 16, is a junior at Buchholz High School, and her love for the game of chess began at the age of 6. That love has endured, brought her a multitude of awards and recognitions, and ...

Chess has recently been enjoying a spike in popularity. This is predominantly thanks to the Netflix series Queen's Gambit, as well as the rise of chess streamers and chess competitions on Twitch that ...

When we first heard about chess boxing, we thought it was a joke. Chess boxing? Could it really be a thing? Turns out, it is, and it's just what it sounds like: alternate rounds of chess and boxing.

In the game of chess, every single move contributes to the overall outcome. All 16 pawns—the queen, knights, bishops and others—provide unique value to a player. The queen is the most powerful piece ...

Around three o’clock in the morning on May 4, 2021, a 20-year-old computer-science student named Sounak Pal fired up his gaming rig at his parents’ place in Pune, near Mumbai in India. His desk had ...