Given that I am vertically challenged (5 feet, 4 7/8 inches), my interest in basketball has always been more about the players’ skills and elegance than ever hoping to be anything more than a towel ...

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 ...

A quiet name suddenly took over chess timelines this week, and it didn’t belong to a grandmaster or a veteran legend.It ...

When we first heard about chess boxing, we thought it was a joke. Chess boxing? Could it really be a thing? Turns out, it is, and it's just what it sounds like: alternate rounds of chess and boxing.

Android, it's your move. Language-learning app Duolingo announced Tuesday that it is launching its chess instruction to Android phones, three months after introducing the game to iOS devices. The ...

I’m embarrassed to admit this in my mid-forties, but I’ve never understood chess well enough to play a full game. My son and daughter both learned how to play in elementary school. I was glad they had ...

LAS VEGAS — Standing before NBA peers and grandmasters, dozens of hoop heads and chess enthusiasts, Derrick Rose’s words passed through his throat like 30-pound dumbbells. He addressed a crowd he wasn ...

On 26 November 1844, two chess teams faced off while separated by 60 kilometers, as the Washington Chess Club played a team in Baltimore using the newly built electrical telegraph. Three consulting ...

ChatGPT volunteered to play a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 to a game of chess and came to regret it after the eight-bit chess engine from the age of Disco Fever and the introduction of the Force did better ...

KANYARUCHINYA, Congo — Children sit on the dirt, their clothes ragged and torn, their shoes punctured with holes, but their eyes bright and fixed on what’s playing out in front of them. In a corner of ...