In this video, we explore chess openings, covering a range of strategies from bad openings to the best openings. Timeline: ...

Back in the early 1900s, chess players thought they had it all figured out. The rules were simple: grab the center with your pawns first (e4, d4), then develop your pieces. Then along came rebels like ...

Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists of the Complexity Science Hub and the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi (CREF) studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these ...

This unconventional path, rejected by purists and loved by eccentrics, has origins dating back to the nineteenth century but ...

Editor’s note: David R. Sands is off on assignment this week. The following is a reprint of a column that ran on Jan. 17, 2012. The most romantic of chess openings doesn’t get many dates these days. A ...

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A Reddit post led to strangers meeting for chess and starting a social club in Pacific Beach for those who enjoy playing ...

Daniel Naroditsky, the American chess grandmaster and streamer who cultivated the game’s digital renaissance, has died aged ...