Discover who the youngest World Chess Champion is. Learn how he made history by winning the title at just 18, breaking Garry ...

Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...

(KRON) – Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, died Monday. He was 29. The Charlotte Chess ...

One of Go’s ten “golden rules”, attributed to Wang Jixin, a Tang-dynasty master, urges players to seek peace and avoid ...

Wrong. Because part of the Soviet school of chess lives on through the genius of Magnus Carlsen, who won his ninth World ...

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Marc Olsen was just 18 when he started winning money at backgammon. Sitting at his computer in Copenhagen in 2004, he would challenge players from all over the world on one of the first backgammon ...

Humans have a predilection for doomsday predictions. Witness the much-hyped technological terror of the Y2K, or year 2000, bug, which failed to crash critical systems as projected, or the apocalyptic ...

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NEW DELHI – A 10-year-old chess prodigy from London has etched her name into history, becoming the youngest female player ever to defeat a grandmaster. Bodhana Sivanandan, just 10 years and five ...