It's worth knowing whether you're just playing a game you like — or maybe also improving your brain chemistry.

Winning a high school state championship takes teamwork, dedication and strategy. Last weekend, the Jesuit High School chess ...

Chess is known to be strategic, analytical and intellectual. But what are the more obscure reasons that entrepreneurs should play chess?

In today’s episode of The 50, the Lion compares the Mahal to a chess board and reminds everyone that alliances break and form ...

The result is that it takes my opponents by complete surprise and creates total pandemonium in their minds. It freezes their ...

Ten years after a milestone victory, AI now dominates Go training. Players are figuring out what that means for the game.

Heisler’s Skinner box-esque chess set was inspired by similarly masochistic DIY projects like an electrified keyboard, and gets its voltage from a reconfigured TENS unit. Short for Transcutaneous ...

I’ve played fantasy baseball for nearly 30 years, and I would be embarrassed to tell you how many drafts I have completed over that stretch. With so many under my belt, I sometimes like to play around ...

Students at Robert Service School in Dawson City, Yukon, can now earn high school credits by playing chess. The chess program ...

Lower dementia risk and live a better quality of life with an occasional round of Monopoly or chess with the family.

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...

Framed as a sports tale, “Queen of Chess,” directed by Rory Kennedy, recounts the life of Judit Polgar, who battled sexism as much as rival players. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for ...