chess has some unexpected quirks. The pieces are named for positions in the royal court, but the most powerful piece – and the most valuable – is not the king, but the queen. A knight and a ...

The lesson this week is that king-pawn endgames often devolve into a race. The fat king usually loses. Reach Eric Morrow at ...

The first machine had a vertical board. Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position. The human’s lone black king ...

C astling is a magic move in Chess where 2 pieces, the King and the Rook, move at the same time. The Rook gets developed towards the centre and the King finds a safe haven behind its own pawns on ...

“If he continues to love chess the way he does now ... bishop diagonally and places it five squares away from the black king. It’s a check. His rival, four-year-old Anish Sarkar, sitting ...