Chess is one of the oldest recorded and most revered board games, and it dates back centuries. However, despite its cent ...

Black is under pressure from white’s rook battery on the “g” file, the white pawn on e5 ... The lesson this week is before moving a piece consider what could possibly go wrong.

The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...

Along the way, pawns and other pieces are sacrificed before one of the kings can be faced with imminent extinction through a declaration of checkmate. In other words, chess contains high drama based ...