With all the pieces visible to both players and all the rules much pretty set in concrete, it’s hard to think of a good April ...

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 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, ...

The lesson this week is that as powerful as the queen is, she still must be guarded, because in chess assassins lurk in the ...

I picked up Walter Tevis’s The Queen’s Gambit in the kind of used bookstore where the shelves are too full, the air smells ...

Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram won the Prague Chess Masters 2025 with an impressive ... in a King's Indian Defense, winning a rook for a minor piece to secure victory.

“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.

By Andrey Avsitidiysky On the evening of March 24, 2025, the fourth stage of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) ...

Far Eastern University (FEU) and University of Santo Tomas (UST) clinched two titles each in the UAAP Season 87 rapid chess ...

Freedom24 Chess Academy has opened in Limassol ... I could have won the game several times, then I ‘caught’ my own rook and the endgame became a theoretical draw. Magnus really wanted to ...

The chess legend gave simultaneous play sessions ... not only not taking the knight, but also leaving her rook in the fight. “By that time I was no longer fighting for first place, so there ...