The sheer number of accounts (often boosted by blue checks) taking the post seriously is staggering. The furious replies ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world No1, made a cameo appearance via video in last Monday’s third episode of BBC2’s Chess Masters: The Endgame, challenging contestants to memorise a position from a “special” ...

the outlines of the players look like chess pieces being moved around the board by some invisible hand. Some run in the ...

Ding, China's first world chess champion, had faced pressure over ... After hours of tight play, Ding on move 55 moved his ...

The self-destruction of the Austrian army in 1788 caused Austria to lose the Battle of Karansebes to the Turks. Karansebes is in modern day Romania. Austrian soldiers mistook each other for the enemy, ...

“If he continues to love chess the way he does now ... promptly plonks his rook in between the two pieces, in the process opening up a direct passage for his bishop to the white king.