With a tense draw lasting four hours and 45 moves, Magnus Carlsen on Friday began the latest defense of his World Chess Championship title. The Norwegian grandmaster has been No. 1 in the world for a ...

The rook in question certainly wasn't the first chess piece ever created, but it may be the oldest found to date. John Peter Oleson Almost 30 years after its discovery, a small sandstone figurine ...

This week's Hearthstone Tavern Brawl is "A Less Friendly Game of Chess" and takes a unique approach to the classic game. We've seen chess before in Azeroth's card game, one of the bosses in One Night ...

In this Little Nightmares 2 guide, we’ll walk you through the chess piece puzzle in Chapter 2. To solve this puzzle and retrieve the key, you’ll need to assemble three chess pieces — a king, a queen, ...

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A chess grandmaster could face a permanent checkmate from the sport after admitting to cheating. Strasbourg Open competitor Igors Rausis was suspended after being “caught red-handed using his phone ...