In the game of chess, a rook can move as many spaces as it can in one direction. Or, it can sit stone-still and guard the pieces around it, potentially holding its ground for an entire match — or ...

With a tense draw lasting four hours and 45 moves, Magnus Carlsen on Friday began the latest defense of his World Chess Championship title. The Norwegian grandmaster has been No. 1 in the world for a ...

The rook in question certainly wasn't the first chess piece ever created, but it may be the oldest found to date. John Peter Oleson Almost 30 years after its discovery, a small sandstone figurine ...

The 29-year-old chess grandmaster, who died this month, brought the game into a new streaming era, with sometimes toxic ...

This past fall, the world championship match in Bonn, Germany, wasn’t the only thing stirring up chess enthusiasts. ChessBase 10, a beefier new version of the massive database program that is the ...

"Hola, ajedrez" means "Hello, chess" in Spanish. You've always been able to learn Spanish on Duolingo. And you'll be able to learn and practice chess on the language learning app soon. Duolingo ...

Perrysburg, OH –Next Wave Automation continues to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of its “CNC Shark” by using it to build a unique chess set. The company is offering free instructions and VCarve files ...

Lower Hutt international chess master Anthony Ker has won his 11th national championship, in a career that spans 20 years. In doing so, he has cemented his place at the top of New Zealand chess at the ...

This week's Hearthstone Tavern Brawl is "A Less Friendly Game of Chess" and takes a unique approach to the classic game. We've seen chess before in Azeroth's card game, one of the bosses in One Night ...

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