Historical records show that the last time a pandemic stampeded around the world was in 1918. Naturally, chess was around in that time but I’m guessing it was not as popular as today. For one thing, ...

Castling is an unusual move in chess. The purpose of castling is to place the King in a safe place away from the ferocity of battle. The motion of castling involves the Rook and the King. When you ...

In the game of chess, a rook can move as many spaces as it can in one direction. Or, it can sit stone-still and guard the pieces around it, potentially holding its ground for an entire match — or ...

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 ...

This past fall, the world championship match in Bonn, Germany, wasn’t the only thing stirring up chess enthusiasts. ChessBase 10, a beefier new version of the massive database program that is the ...