He's still in pre-school and has been playing the game for just over a year. But he's already done enough to become the ...

Ex Bake Off host Sue Perkins' favourite recipe remains a dish called innuendo, noted viewers tuning into BBC's brand new ...

In a rare double unlikely to be replicated, the new world chess champion is an 18-year-old grandmaster from the Indian city ...

Can a new Sue Perkins-fronted chess competition whip up some The Queen's Gambit-style excitement about the game?

In 1929 and 1930, the Cambridge top board lost his queen very early, once to a knight fork and then to a bishop pin. Matches ...

Knights, bishops and queens fought to take down the king in a brain battle at Campus Recreation’s Friendly Chess Tournament ...

On 23 February, the Cyprus Open Chess Championship ended in Nicosia. It was attended by 90 players, 52 of whom were juniors. Chess is becoming more and more popular in Cyprus and its national team is ...

Chess is the best workout for your brain ... “Attacked a knight and a bishop”. “I mean, he went after the minor pieces. And now we’re back to basketball. It turns out that instead of ...

George R.R. Martin and Robert Redford sat in a New Mexico jail cell last night playing a game of chess. The “Game of Thrones” ...

Nuclear war is next It turns out that AI models are not content with regurgitating human knowledge—they’re also picking up on ...

FRAMINGHAM – This was no game of chess. Strategy gave way to brute force. Punch after punch went largely unanswered. It was ...