At the United States Chess Championship, I entered a world of chess as serious business. For one thing, I was wanded by a security guard on my way up to the competition. (To prevent cheating, cell ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A local chess program is winning big and making a significant impact on its players. Charles Cooper is a social studies teacher at Allen Village. When he started in 1978, he noticed ...

Open Chess project delivers electric shocks for bad moves and costs $22 versus $600 commercial smart boards through open-source DIY design.

We had a chance to review the GoChess Lite, an electronic chess board designed to teach, compete, and bring a modern style to chess ...

Paul Morphy was a 19th-century New Orleans chess prodigy who was the de facto world chess champion during much of his short life. He rarely lost when he played throughout Europe and the United States.

The result is that it takes my opponents by complete surprise and creates total pandemonium in their minds. It freezes their ...

It’s been nearly 30 years since chess champion Garry Kasparov lost to IBM’s Deep Blue, marking the first time a reigning ...

Ramsey Stiles had played chess for more than two years before ever getting the chance to say, "checkmate." Not that the junior at Highland School of Technology would ever say the word. Attacking the ...