On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...

The new feature-length doc tells the story of Magnus Carlsen, a Norwegian Grandmaster and the No. 1 chess player in the world ...

And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not ...

PARIS, March 26 (Reuters) - The chess Candidates tournament opens on Sunday with a throwback feel — eight players, long-time controls and the game in its purest form — but also with a sense that this ...

Crimson Desert just launched yesterday to a bit of a chaotic and mixed reception from critics. That hasn't hampered its sales, but those two million players are starting to stumble into some ...

It’s hard to talk about addiction. The American war on drugs has dedicated over half a century to treating addiction like a crime rather than a disease—portraying drug abuse as a moral failing instead ...

A magnet chess game is being recalled due to a risk of serious injury or death from magnetic ingestion, according to a recall notice from the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Kluster Fun ...

Ludus Latrunculi board, an ancient Roman strategy game. Credit: Raimundo Pastor / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists in southern Russia have uncovered the remains of a 3,000 BC board game that may represent ...

The young chess player reached instinctively toward his threatened king, scanning the board for safe haven — until his instructor stepped in with a question. “If you move your king out of check, what ...

As board games go, it's hard to get more influential than chess. It's not the oldest game out there, Go is more than a millennium older, but Chess still predates Monopoly by roughly five centuries.

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 age of 74, the ...

Ramin Djawadi’s Game of Thrones theme is one of the most iconic TV scores of the 2010s. There’s perhaps a reason, then, that when House of the Dragon began, Djawadi returned to Westeros and kind of ...