It’s been nearly 30 years since chess champion Garry Kasparov lost to IBM’s Deep Blue, marking the first time a reigning ...

It’s worth knowing whether you’re just playing a game you like — or maybe also improving your brain chemistry.

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, ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Solving a cover-two defense is a chess match Max Brosmer loves. The Gophers starting quarterback and KARE 11 sports reporter Will Hall sat down for a game of real chess earlier this week ...

Jessica Hyatt says she began playing chess for the very first time on a computer game at the age of 3. "It was one of the games that I fell in love with," says Hyatt, who is now a world-renowned ...

Happily, the local chess sessions for kids are free of complex subtext and Cold War metaphor. They are certainly different from matches between the game’s earliest players – an iteration called ...

NEW YORK-- Victor Wembanyama played 1-on-1 with fans at a park in New York City on Saturday. Last season's NBA rookie of the year even lost a couple of games. But instead of basketball, Wemby was ...

The history of chess is filled with prodigies who seemed destined for greatness before they became adults. Interestingly, elite chess players spend thousands of hours training before they reach their ...