Magnus Carlsen, a 34-year-old Norwegian, is among the greatest chess players of all time.

The officially sanctioned Soviet chess “king” and “queen” are pieces carved to represent a working man and a peasant woman. The “pawns” bear the insignia of “Pionerki”: a political ...

C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

chess has some unexpected quirks. The pieces are named for positions in the royal court, but the most powerful piece – and the most valuable – is not the king, but the queen. A knight and a ...

How does a chess player know which move to say ... both the Rooks together control all the squares of the Black King, ...