Not everyone gets to meet their idols — or compete against them. When Alice Lee was growing up, she watched Irina Krush, the first woman to earn the title of Grandmaster while playing for the United ...

April 19 (UPI) --A Nigerian chess master is more than 50 hours into his attempt to play chess for 60 consecutive hours and break a Guinness World Record in the process. Tunde Onakoya started playing ...

The suspense of watching fictional chess master Beth Harmon play multiple opponents simultaneously in Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” comes to UC Davis as grandmaster Joel Benjamin will play against 24 ...

In a world filled with sketchy stratagems and bad moves in every direction, the grandmasters of chess stand apart. There are fewer than 2,000 grandmasters worldwide. They play the “royal game” at the ...

The world’s top-ranked chess player, Magnus Carlsen, has drawn an unprecedented game where he played against more than 143,000 players from around the world. The event set a new record for someone ...

Tunde Onakoya is trying to break a record for the longest chess marathon. And he’s playing his games in the open air in Manhattan. By Lola Fadulu Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll look at a ...

Jessica Hyatt is now the youngest African-American woman National Chess Master in U.S. history, having achieved this feat at the age of 19. She holds three major chess titles: National Master, ...

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,” ...

For many, chess can be a complicated, mind-boggling game – not worth the effort it would take to master its 64 squares and 32 pieces. But for player Michael Cambareri, the complexity is exactly what ...