Madison’s Awonder Liang was a globetrotting chess champion before he was a teenager — winning the 2011 World Youth Chess Championship in Brazil at age 8. On returning, he gave his first national ...

Chess master Nigel Short thinks we should simply accept that men's brains may be wired better for chess than women's. As he told New in Chess magazine, "Rather than fretting about inequality, perhaps ...

Chess holds a unique allure. The tension between strategy and impulse, risk and loss, all set to the beat of a ticking clock. It’s universally hypnotic to watch a chess match unfold, and a bit ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... OSLO – As a prodigal genius and fashion model, newly crowned world chess champion Magnus Carlsen has already lit up the game and has now added the world ...

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

Tianhui “Cindy” Jie, 16, is a junior at Buchholz High School, and her love for the game of chess began at the age of 6. That love has endured, brought her a multitude of awards and recognitions, and ...