Magnus Carlsen, a 34-year-old Norwegian, is among the greatest chess players of all time.

The officially sanctioned Soviet chess “king” and “queen” are pieces carved to represent a working man and a peasant woman. The “pawns” bear the insignia of “Pionerki”: a political ...

C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

If you ask a chess player to elucidate ... into any other piece except for the King, and the pawn itself. Players usually chose to promote it to a Queen as she is the strongest piece on the ...

Garry Kasparov, who held the record for the highest chess score until it was broken by Carlsen in 2013, once wrote that ‘In chess, bigamy is acceptable, but monarchy is absolute.’ No doubt the king ...

How does a chess player know which move to say ... both the Rooks together control all the squares of the Black King, ...