In a historic moment for chess, Gukesh Dommaraju, an 18-year-old prodigy from Chennai, India, has become the youngest world chess champion ever. He won the championship by defeating China's Ding Liren ...
New research using chess960 shows that changing the starting layout can rebalance chess and alter how difficult early ...
"Chess is the great equalizer," Principal Salome Thomas-El said. A principal at an economically disadvantaged school has spent more than 30 years teaching his students life lessons through the game of ...
As Chandna tests his student’s comprehension, he glances down through clear frame glasses at the array of green and white squares before him. At the beginning of the lesson, he had unsheathed this ...
Chess has enjoyed a sharp rise in popularity in the 2020s. The spike began during COVID lockdowns and increased when Chess.com created its first PogChamps tournament on Twitch in 2020, which proved ...