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 ...

Hans Niemann on Friday confirmed that the ’lie-detector’ test has been scheduled after initially stating on his YouTube ...

Deciding what is and isn't a sport is a controversial subject. Is poker a sport or a game? And how is 'sport' defined? Find ...

This strategy can be summed up in a single word: bluff. The game of chess apparently emerged in India somewhere around the 6th century, inspired by the metaphor of warfare. Initially called ...

We know that chess has that, and billiards has that. Ping-pong has that, too. Every game has a connection to how we conceive nature and landscape, how we order and we structure reality. In the case of ...

FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky weighed in on banning women-only tournaments, something which has been supported by Vaishali Rameshbabu and Judit Polgar. Vaishali Rameshbabu courted controversy recently ...

The passage of the continuing resolution to keep the government open was a remarkable example of the revolutionary movement through which we are living. Traditionally, a continuing resolution ...

The dinner itself is a slow-burning sequence where every word spoken is a potential dagger ... every moment feel like a ...

In a sport like chess, where teenage prodigies emerge every week, spare a thought for Aravindh Chithambaram. The 25-year-old is experiencing the first real gust of tail wind in his career at a time ...

Only Connect fans hoping for their usual installment of cryptic fun on Tuesday evening found in its place BBC2's brand new reality TV quiz show Chess Masters: The Endgame. Hosted by Sue Perkins ...