Timur Gareyev was just moves into a world record 48-board simultaneous blindfold chess exhibition in Las Vegas when he decided to change tactics. “I was like, OK, I’m just going to try to go with the ...

In her inspired debut, A Partial History of Lost Causes, out from Dial Press on March 19, Jennifer DuBois charts the journey of two disparate characters who share an unlikely journey of discovery: a ...

When two men play chess together for many years what happens when one of two dies? This was the question Jack Powers faced when his friend and chess playing partner Steven Tschantz died. Powers not ...

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Chess is often regarded as the game that is most commonly associated with intelligence and strategy. Science has in fact proven that chess players have more cognitive skill than non-chess players. But ...

Oslo, May 31 (PTI) For a player who has spent much of the last two decades setting the benchmark, Magnus Carlsen’s remark in the Norway Chess confession box that “we’re getting old” carried an unusual ...