This episode includes a review of the recent Candidates Tournament in Toronto, the Saint Louis Chess Club’s Tony Rich gives you an inside look at the governing bodies that set the rules of ...

Chess is a game of seemingly endless complexity, each new match expanding into an intricate weave of strategies, gambits, and countermoves. It only gets stranger if you decide to throw out the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For centuries, chess experts have largely agreed that playing white offers a slight starting advantage over black. The standard ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Look at that glorious mess up there. “That’s not chess,” you say. Damn right, it’s chess on drugs. Get this game another hit of the good stuff, ...

We often use chess as a metaphor for life, business, and other competitive sports, because it's such a strategic game. Coder and chess player Gautam Narula offers us two simple rules that sum up the ...

Chess is quite a game. The game. Chess is so old and so esteemed it’s often used as a point of legitimacy for other things. If you have a lengthy discussion about Street Fighter, critical or not, ...

Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" has inspired a surge of interest in chess around the globe. The series follows the life of fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) in the 1960s. The modern ...