Netflix released the trailer for limited series “The Queen’s Gambit” on Thursday, showing the struggle Anya Taylor-Joy’s Beth Harmon faces as she tries to conquer the male-dominated world of ...

The chess puzzle may have had an early and accomplished aficionado: Leonardo da Vinci. A manuscript penned around 1500 gives experts reason to believe da Vinci may have come up with the striking and ...

Chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa competing in a 2017 tournament as a 12-year-old. | Vysotsky/CC BY-SA 4.0 Playing one’s natural ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was ...

Sept. 10 -- It's a story of wizardry, secrecy and high-speed moves in a game that has room for both geniuses and fools. For 30 years, U.S. chess genius and the world's most famous chess recluse, Bobby ...