Dr. Emanuel Lasker, former chess champion of the world, was today appointed chess editor of the Izvestia, official organ of the Soviet government. Dr. Lasker will also occupy the post of director ...

Champion chess player and Soviet dissident Garry Kasparov has a few thoughts about how well democracy in the U.S. is doing. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that it's not America first - it's America alone.

the Soviet chess titan, who trained champions Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. “In Botvinnik’s time, his analysis itself was unique knowledge,” Anand said, adding that technology had ...