Imagine a chessboard where the pieces move on their own, gliding across the squares with mechanical precision, as if guided by an invisible hand. It might sound like a scene from a futuristic movie, ...

So the Red Sox are officially eliminated at last from postseason contention. Sigh. I guess I no longer need to feel guilty for looking ahead to the off-season, so let’s do that. With the excitement ...

I taught my younger brother how to play chess when I was in junior high and he was in elementary school. I took pleasure in routinely beating him despite his being a beginner. But he quickly caught up ...

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

Champion chess player and Soviet dissident Garry Kasparov has a few thoughts about how well democracy in the U.S. is doing. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that it's not America first - it's America alone.

Duolingo is a popular language learning app with 103.6 million monthly active users. The company announced on Tuesday that it is testing a new chess course. Duolingo plans to roll out the chess course ...