Growing up in the former Yugoslavia, it was pretty much a given that Julian Z. Schuster would learn to play chess at an early age. Most children did. “It was embarrassing if you didn’t,” he says. Now ...

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland is making moves off the football pitch after investing in Norway Chess to help launch a new global tournament aimed at turning the cerebral ‌sport into a bigger ...

About nine months ago Lenard Seawood started the Every Move Counts nonprofit startup to use the game of chess to help improve the lives of children in Stockton. When he was in the Army, stationed in ...

Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15 years. It’s ...

"The game of chess .. is like a swordfight. You must think first, before you move." If you're my age (and a hip-hop fan), those words take you back to the early '90s. If you're a huge chess fan, it's ...

Grandmaster chess is associated in the public's mind with disproportionate levels of eccentricity, or even insanity. This is a statistically invalid cliché created by journalists who don't have a ...