There’s a moment in many great games where nothing flashy happens. A pawn is moved. A bishop steps back. A rook shuffles ...

City lad four-year-old Anish Sarkar after becoming world's youngest-rated player by earning his first FIDE rating is a pride for the state and also the nation.

Magnus Carlsen hated homework and blossomed when he no longer had to go to school. Today, he plays chess according to a new set of rules and is engaged in an ongoing battle with the World Chess ...

Ephrata’s Nicholas Keller during 100-meter dash at a L-L League Section One track and field meet at Ephrata’s middle school ...

1989 — Michigan beats Seton Hall 80-79 in overtime to win the NCAA basketball championship. Rumeal Robinson hits two free throws with three seconds left for the Wolverines. It’s the first time that a ...

Anand was in part inspired by the chess school started nearly 60 years ago by Mikhail Botvinnik, the Soviet chess titan, who trained champions Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. “In Botvinnik ...

1975 — Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it, title awarded to Russian Anatoly Karpov. 1977 — Jean Ratelle of the Boston Bruins scores his 1,000th point with an ...

1966 — P Tom Seaver signs with the NY Mets. 1975 — Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it, title awarded to Russian Anatoly Karpov. 1977 — Jean Ratelle of the Boston ...