An unorthodox chess move known as the "Bongcloud" has surged in popularity after reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen used it in a competitive match on March 15, amusing spectators and his ...

Linda Diaz, who won this year's Tiny Desk Contest at NPR Music, is a chess expert and international chess champion. She sat down to talk with us about the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit.

Nona Gaprindashvili, 80, is referenced in the show as not having ever played a male opponent — but she actually faced upwards of 59 men by the show’s 1968 setting.

In the Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit,” the character Benny Watts walks up to Beth Harmon, the show’s heroine, at the start of the 1967 United States Chess Championship.

On the opposite side of the board is Marilyn Yalom, the author of "Birth of the Chess Queen: A History" (HarperCollins, $24.95). The book explores the rise of the game's queen vis-a-vis the rise ...

David Bradley spends most weekends engaged in intense chess matches with his 15-year-old daughter, Zoe. They stare at the board for hours and plot their next moves, consumed by a new shared pastime.

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In place of the queen, the Persians had farzin, a male figure whose name roughly translates to counselor. As H.J.R. Murray pointed out in his 1913 book, “A History of Chess,” the farzin’s ...

Georgian chess legend Nona Gaprindashvili is suing Netflix for defamation. At issue is a line in the show's final episode that falsely says she hadn't played against male opponents.

"It's now cool to play chess," says Shahade (in black). In March, she and Irina Krush (in white) vied at an art gallery benefit for the U.S. Women's Chess Olympiad Team. Mig Greengard, ChessNinja ...