PARIS, March 12 (Reuters) - Finding chess boring? Try shuffling your pieces on the back rank and you get Chess960, or Freestyle chess, a variant of the game that favours creativity over preparation, ...

Vietnam number one chess player Le Quang Liem has reached his career-high position of 14th on the standard chess Elo ranking, surpassing the reigning world champion Ding Liren. In the final game of ...

Garry Kasparov is widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players in history. In recent times, he"s also become a favorite among the crypto community.Speaking at a Coindesk interview, Kasparov ...

CITY OF NEWBURGH — Matthew Tether unrolled a world champion-standard chess mat and plopped it on the sidewalk near the front steps of Baptist Temple Church. "This is where it all began," he said. The ...

A seething Magnus Carlsen slammed his fist into a table after suffering his first defeat by world champion Gukesh Dommaraju in a classical game in Stavanger before the Norwegian wondered why he was ...

FILIPINO icon Eugene Torre is batting for standard chess to be a regular event in the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games. The 71-year-old Asia’s first Grandmaster (GM) and playing national team coach is ...

Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia (not pictured) are in fact in Dubai battling for the 2021 World Chess Championship. The grandmasters — the world Nos. 1 and 5, respectively — ...

The problem with Vietnamese chess is that young players are meeting neither standards nor expectations, which could lead to a future talent shortage. In the March update of the International Chess ...

As a young girl, Yifan Hou was enchanted by the shapes of chess pieces. This initial intrigue coupled with a natural flair for the game set her on track to become the youngest woman to earn the ...