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 ...

Should we modernize chess king and queen to move beyond their entrenched symbols of monarchy, and bring back gender-neutral terminology and designs? Can we fully acknowledge the global history of ...

D Gukesh will need to beat Fabiano Caruana in game 2 of the quarterfinals of the Freestyle Chess Grand Tour to stay alive in ...

German GM Martin Keymer was Freestyling in style, successively defeating the world’s two highest-rated players to capture the ...