Chess. MMOs. As far as games go, they're nothing alike. But what if they were? That's the central thesis of One Million Chessboards, the brainchild of a single developer where you and hundreds of ...

If you scrunch your eyes up just as an offensive line sets for a play, the outlines of the players look like chess pieces being moved around the board by some invisible hand. Some run in the straight ...

Chess pieces are assembled on a board at the Albany Chess Center on Sept. 19 in Colonie. Founder John Oyeyemi Fawole and his team operate the center seven days a week and run programming not just at ...

Android, it's your move. Language-learning app Duolingo announced Tuesday that it is launching its chess instruction to Android phones, three months after introducing the game to iOS devices. The ...

Newcomers to chess should consider learning the following openings to ensure they get off to a good start as both White and Black.

Maybe you were one of the many people who began playing chess because you watched The Queen’s Gambit during the pandemic. Or maybe you attempted to play chess and realized: oh yeah, chess is actually ...

Photographed against the Kansas City skyline, David Pentimone designed his own chess set based on the New York City skyline. A few years ago, he began working on a Kansas City-inspired set. From clubs ...

The Alaska Chess Federation is now a local chapter of US Chess and is using a grassroots approach to grow the game.

CEDAR PARK, Texas (KXAN) — When 10-year-old Advik Manchanda gets home from school, two hours of online chess is normal. From online to in-house, Manchanda often spends time at home playing games ...

After 18 years of knocking pawns and gambling queens, Evanston’s community chess club is nowhere near its endgame. The ...

Last November, in round eight of the Arab Women’s Chess Championship, Abu Dhabi-raised chess player Rouda Alserkal had a realization. If she won the match, she’d earn enough points to be named a Woman ...