Diving chess is played at the bottom of a swimming pool, using a chessboard with magnetic chess pieces. The players dive ...

Earlier this month, a handful of the world’s greatest chess players gathered in an event space located in the lush greenery of Paris’ Bois de Vincennes. The spectacle was part of an ambitious vision ...

The chess world is about to converge on an island off the coast of Singapore with the express goal of crowning a world champion. For the two grandmasters involved, it will be the culmination of months ...

Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

Vincent Keymer shines as one of the most brilliant young talents in the contemporary chess panorama. The player is not only ...

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 ...

Kyler Murray considered his lost pawn and strategized his next move. But before Murray advanced his queen, Cleveland Browns receiver Amari Cooper extended a hand across the chessboard. “You won,” ...

A cerebral palsy player competed in a Chinese chess competition while wearing a non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) ...

Russia is no stranger to unique poisonings. State agents have been known to use everything from polonium-laced tea to the deadly nerve agent "novichok" when making assassination attempts against both ...

A Russian chess player is under investigation for allegedly attempting to poison another player ahead of a match last week. Security video shows the chess player Amina Abakarova smearing what is ...