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

C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...