WEST ORANGE — Chess, to many outsiders, is a game played in airless rooms and hushed silence by men with flinty gunfighter stares and perpetually puzzled brows, contemplating moves as if the ...

Chess in its original form has a beauty that can't be questioned. The game has been played since centuries, but many don't know about some variations that have arisen from the main rules. One such ...

In response to the ‘chess is the new cricket’ claim, there should have been a fifth point of difference—chess can tell the difference between black and white. Magnus Carlsen Deepti Sharma ...

Online discussions about black and white chess pieces are confusing artificial intelligence algorithms trained to detect racism and other hate speech, according to new research.. Computer ...

"It's now cool to play chess," says Shahade (in black). In March, she and Irina Krush (in white) vied at an art gallery benefit for the U.S. Women's Chess Olympiad Team. Mig Greengard, ChessNinja ...

Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student after ...