Editor’s note: David R. Sands is off on assignment this week. The following is a reprint of a column that ran on Jan. 17, 2012. The most romantic of chess openings doesn’t get many dates these days. A ...

It was the most popular opening for the first three centuries of modern chess. Paul Morphy relied on it heavily during his meteoric rise to world supremacy in the mid-19th century. Bobby Fischer ...

On the other end of the phone line, a teaspoon is clinking against a glass. Hip-hop icon The GZA is ready to talk about his favorite game in the world: chess. “Everything is based on mathematics,” he ...

The Queen's Gambit on Netflix is in some ways a show about chess for those who know nothing about chess. However, for the players of the ancient game, there are plenty of chess references that help ...

It felt like the whole world fell in love with chess for a brief spell last year when the Queen's Gambit took over Netflix and living rooms everywhere. While the show's buzz may have subsided by now, ...