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 ...

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Protests over racism have rekindled a discussion about whether chess promotes white privilege with its rule that the player with the white pieces goes first.

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.

Hyatt is building a legacy at such a young age by defeating grandmasters. In 2021, she handed Grandmaster Michael Rohde a defeat, and then the following year, she beat chess prodigy Grandmaster ...

Ever since the late 1800s, it has been standard for white to go first in chess. Has the time come to get rid of that rule?

"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 ...

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen has accused fellow competitor Hans Niemann of cheating. It’s a seismic moment for the sport.

Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, says it's important to have a beginner's mindset, in chess and in life.