Chess boxing, a sport testing both brains and brawn, has been steadily rising in popularity. It's been a big hit in Russia, ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster and well-known chess commentator, died on Oct. 19. Peter Giannatos, a close friend of ...

Freestyle chess is shaking up the chess world, and Jan Henric Buettner comes on the podcast to discuss how this innovative ...

Chess,” with songs by Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus and “Evita” lyricist Tim Rice, is a two-hour-forty-five-minute slog ...

Vishwanathan Anand began playing chess at six, was Indian champion by 16 and picked up the Grandmaster title one year later. On Dec. 24, the 31-year-old from Madras went on to even greater glory, ...

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid Chess Championship on Friday after he refused to change out of a pair of jeans, a direct violation of the International Chess Federation’s ...

McCaffrey is the game guy in the 49ers' locker room. The problem is that he's so good, no one wants to play him anymore.