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

The Netflix documentary ‘Queen of Chess’ follows the career of groundbreaking women’s player Judit Polgár. Learn about her ...

The chess prodigy's rise to stardom unfolds in director Rory Kennedy's new film 'Queen of Chess' ...

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.

Here's a statistical challenge worthy of a grandmaster: How do you create an accurate ranking system when the best players ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess star and streamer credited with helping expand the game's audience, was found dead at his home in North Carolina in October.

An 8-year-old chess prodigy made history as the youngest player to defeat a chess grandmaster. The boy, Aswath Kaushik, beat Jacek Stopa at a chess tournament in Switzerland. Kaushik, who was born in ...

Samy Shoker is an International Grand Chess Master and European Middleweight Chess Boxing Champion, who prefers checkmate over a knockout and can be very quick with the fastest checkmate in two moves.

Chess Bus recently celebrated the release of its first published book while hosting a successful event at the Ontario Center.