Novice chess players rely extensively on their ability to recognize familiar board patterns rather than purely calculating ...

The ballooning number of players who have achieved the top title has some of the game’s best players asking whether the designation even matters. By Dylan Loeb McClain When the International Chess ...

Last year, my son joined the middle school chess club and began using me, a total novice, as his sparring partner. In chess, a player can choose from one of 20 opening moves, including moving a knight ...

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha has become the youngest player in chess history to earn an official FIDE rating at the age of three years, seven months and 20 days. Born in 2022, Sarwagya — from Sagar in the ...