chess has some unexpected quirks. The pieces are named for positions in the royal court, but the most powerful piece – and the most valuable – is not the king, but the queen. A knight and a ...

This isn't just another chess tournament though, with a public spat between Carlsen and the promoters of the FCGT with FIDE ...

Often compared to chess, xiangqi is a centuries-old board game with deep cultural roots. While both games share the objective of capturing the opponent’s key piece — the general in xiangqi versus the ...

Though he failed to snap his winless run on the seventh and penultimate day of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour event in ...

While Gukesh is out of the quarterfinal, his time in Weissenhaus still continues, as he will battle for the fifth to eighth ...