Chess is highly interesting and a game that demands ... The Knight can jump over other pieces while moving. 5. The Castle or Rook can move any number of squares forward or backward across.

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, ...

“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.