King Henry VIII was not very fast. Neither was King George III, among others. Power perhaps is fattening or a heavy burden, ...

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 ...

Eight Super Grandmasters battle it out in the strongest chess tournament in history. This inside scoop covers all 14 grueling rounds while delving into cultural experiences including chess boxing ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.

“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 ...