Liam Blackburn, left, plays a game of chest with Courtney Zajac during L.A. Chess Club's April 4 meetup. The pair met at the event the week prior and planned to meet at the next event. "I haven't ...

Think of “Human Combat Chess” as a show for theatergoers looking to get their nerd on. “Our biggest audience is nerds,” says performer Skot Rieffer, who includes his own Dungeons and Dragons-playing ...

AKRON, Ohio – In Santosh Kanakkanatt’s world, life is black and white. And the way he sees it, that’s not a bad thing. The retired chemist who is known as “Coach K” is on a mission to get more kids ...

Liam Blackburn, left, plays a game of chess with Courtney Zajac during L.A. Chess Club's April 4 meetup. The pair met at the event the week before and planned to meet at the next event. "I haven't ...

As chess world champion Magnus Carlsen defends his title against Fabiano Caruana in London, here are a few celebrities, from Bob Dylan to Marlene Dietrich, who could join them in a game. It was a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Things do not get off to the best start when I walk into the Hotel Bristol in Oslo to meet Magnus Carlsen. The ...

President of Johannesburg North West Chess Gerhardus van Deventer says that people should balance playing chess with physical sports. Two local chess experts discuss the advantages of playing chess, ...

Most of us know the basics of chess: You move pawns and pieces — rooks, knights, bishops and a queen — around a checkerboard in a bid to capture your opponent’s king, without losing your own. Each ...

Twitter bumped all of its users up to 280 characters this week, reducing the density of the average tweet, if not that of the intellects behind them. There have, at least, been a number of decent gags ...