Andrea shows 10 basic chess strategies, that every beginner player should know. Mastering these principles will give you a solid base, that you can gradually improve upon as you get more chess ...

Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, says it's important to have a beginner's mindset, in chess and in life. Latest U.S.

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, the world's No. 1-ranked player, suffered a major defeat on Sunday to current world champion Gukesh Dommaraju. After Dommaraju made his final move ...

Chess’s cheating scandal is in part a standoff between a respected and well-liked world champion and an upstart young player. But it is also a marker for an unsettling issue: chess is now solvable.

In checkers, players move different colored checkers and capture their opponent's pieces to win. Here are a few strategies to ...

The NBA chess boom reflects the wider cultural mainstreaming of chess caused by The Queen’s Gambit, Netflix’s wildly successful 2020 series starring Anya Taylor-Joy as a tranquilizer-addicted ...

Magnus Carlsen, five-time world champion and the best chess player in the world, has opted out of the FIDE World Championship cycle for the second consecutive year.

The influence of Rozman — the world’s 6,689th-ranked player, according to the International Chess Federation, known by its French acronym, FIDE — is tougher to account for, the product of an ...

Duolingo will soon add chess to its list of non-language courses, alongside music and math.The company has revealed that it will add chess lessons to its app, which will initially be available in ...

Or, to be safe, chess is a strategy game where two warring players - one black, one white - control their army and aim to dominate the other player's King. It's an ultimate game of logic, thinking ...