Open Chess project delivers electric shocks for bad moves and costs $22 versus $600 commercial smart boards through open-source DIY design.

Team members said they improve as chess players by embracing humility, dedication and the joy of the game.

Fame, glory, and cold hard cash are on the line this week at an elite level of competition: the 2026 American Cup at the Saint Louis Chess Club. “It’s the crème de la crème of the American chess world ...

Twenty-one-year-old Trisha Kanyamarala became the first Irish woman to be awarded the title of woman grandmaster (WGM) in ...

Every so often a chess piece is moved from one square to another, a hand strikes a clock and the action is recorded in a ...

While Dr. Ray Mostafavi typically helps Staten Islanders improve their vision, the ophthalmologist utilized his Travis office ...

JAKARTA—Duolingo, the world’s leading learning app, announced the launch of its Chess’s Player-vs-Player mode (PvP) on ...

An 8-year-old chess prodigy made history as the youngest player to defeat a chess grandmaster. The boy, Aswath Kaushik, beat Jacek Stopa at a chess tournament in Switzerland. Kaushik, who was born in ...

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.

By Bart Meijer AMSTERDAM, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Dutch chess grandmaster Jan Timman, known as "the best of the West" in a time when chess was dominated by players from the Soviet Union, has died at the ...