Over the years, “Chess” has acquired this reputation as a musical with a great score, by Tim Rice and ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, that has been cursed by Rice’s problematic book. For the ...

Chess boxing got its start in a graphic novel. Now actual competitors fight for knockouts and checkmates. Russia has dominated for years, but the sport's popularity is growing in the U.S.

Chess boxing, a sport testing both brains and brawn, has been steadily rising in popularity. It's been a big hit in Russia, ...

Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher took a break from navigating their onstage rivalries to engage in some ...

Out of 19 contestants, just five remained. Traitors Cat Burns and Alan Carr, and faithfuls Joe Marler, Nick Mohammed and ...

Android, it's your move. Language-learning app Duolingo announced Tuesday that it is launching its chess instruction to Android phones, three months after introducing the game to iOS devices. The ...

Bodhana Sivanandan, a 10-year-old chess prodigy from London, made headlines over the summer after she became the youngest female chess player to defeat a grandmaster. This week, Sivanandan reached ...

Last November, in round eight of the Arab Women’s Chess Championship, Abu Dhabi-raised chess player Rouda Alserkal had a realization. If she won the match, she’d earn enough points to be named a Woman ...

Ashely Claudino is an Evergreen Staff Writer from Portugal. She has a Translation degree from the University of Lisbon (2020, Faculty of Arts and Humanities). Nowadays, she mostly writes Fortnite and ...

The Detroit winner receives $200 prize, and free airfare to Los Angeles for a chance to play in the grand finale, competing for $10k. Losing a game of chess is never fun; however, setting aflame a ...

Chess.com is one of the biggest digital chess platforms in the world, with over 100 million members. But as the site has grown and become more popular, it has also attracted naughty players who break ...