Chess: 5 Books That Will Instantly Level Up Your Game ... we cover the upcoming moves in the book with our palm or ask a friend to sit across the board along with the book.

Chess and the Law: An Anthology of Anecdotes and Analogies book, by Andrew J. Field, front and back covers. When I was young I spent many weekends at the Dallas Chess Club testing my mettle ...

Chess, a game that can be traced back at least 1,500 years, is suddenly one of the coolest games topping wish lists this holiday season and retailers are struggling to keep it in stock.

One such game appears inside a new book of photographs documenting the rich interplay between chess and culture over the past 130 years. The scene is a Connecticut lawn in 1956; Duchamp sits in ...

Book Traces Origins of the 'Chess Queen' When the game of chess spread from the Middle East to Europe, there was no piece representing a queen. When the icon emerged around the year 1000, it was ...

Cover Stories is a series in which book designers discuss their work: concepts that didn’t make the final cut and the cover as published. Glen David Gold’s memoir, “I Will Be Complete,” is ...

Meanwhile, the research firm reported unit sales of chess sets jumped 87% in the U.S., while chess book sales rose 603%. The miniseries, which premiered on Oct. 23, ...

As the name suggests, this amazing book is for beginners and hobby players. Sokolsky covers all the starting elements of the game right from how to arrange the Chess board, to covering a wider ...