It’s been nearly 30 years since chess champion Garry Kasparov lost to IBM’s Deep Blue, marking the first time a reigning ...

It’s worth knowing whether you’re just playing a game you like — or maybe also improving your brain chemistry.

Corrected: A previous version of this article referenced the International Chess Federation acronym as ICF. The acronym is FIDE. There are 25 million kids worldwide who play chess competitively, ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Solving a cover-two defense is a chess match Max Brosmer loves. The Gophers starting quarterback and KARE 11 sports reporter Will Hall sat down for a game of real chess earlier this week ...

My 12-year-old nephew joined his school’s chess team last year, and I wound up volunteering to coach the team, with my tenure starting a few weeks ago. I had no coaching experience, but I am a serious ...

Chess has always been a part of Henry Lien’s life. He’s played it since he was 5 years old or so, his tiny hands just big enough to hold the pieces. He grew up in a part of the Bay Area, Marin, which ...

Happily, the local chess sessions for kids are free of complex subtext and Cold War metaphor. They are certainly different from matches between the game’s earliest players – an iteration called ...

Alexandra Botez brings in over $100,000 a year as a professional chess streamer in Austin, Texas. Along with her sister, Andrea, the 25-year-old creates and streams chess content on Twitch. "By the ...

Team members said they improve as chess players by embracing humility, dedication and the joy of the game.

A major study published in Neurology found that lifelong mentally stimulating activities, such as reading, chess, and puzzles, may delay Alzheimer’s disease by about five years and mild cognitive ...