The sheer number of accounts (often boosted by blue checks) taking the post seriously is staggering. The furious replies ...

With all the pieces visible to both players and all the rules much pretty set in concrete, it’s hard to think of a good April ...

The lesson this week is that as powerful as the queen is, she still must be guarded, because in chess assassins lurk in the ...

The self-destruction of the Austrian army in 1788 caused Austria to lose the Battle of Karansebes to the Turks. Karansebes is in modern day Romania. Austrian soldiers mistook each other for the enemy, ...

Some viewers suggested the show, which sees real-life chess ... Queen' faced a solo challenge, she could hardly hide her giggles when straight-faced Sue told her it was called The Bashing Bishop.

Presenting is a velvet-suited Sue Perkins, who fulfils her remit admirably by smirking about “bishop ... Queen”) and Scottish Caitlin (“The Smiling Assassin”), both of whom were taught ...

(We're not using David's full name because of his age.) "He's teaching me to play chess!" David tells a friend, as Steward ...

I picked up Walter Tevis’s The Queen’s Gambit in the kind of used bookstore where the shelves are too full, the air smells ...

"He's teaching me to play chess!" David tells a friend, as Steward explains the moves of the bishop, knight and queen on the chess board. The grandpas say they enjoy the boys' openness and energy.

Checkmate took on a different meaning at the Queen’s Head pub ... Randy Rook” and “The Groping Bishop” might cause offence. Landlord Richard, no mean chess player himself, has now thrown ...