It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match ...

Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

PARIS, March 12 (Reuters) - Finding chess boring? Try shuffling your pieces on the back rank and you get Chess960, or Freestyle chess, a variant of the game that favours creativity over preparation, ...

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces ...

A seething Magnus Carlsen slammed his fist into a table after suffering his first defeat by world champion Gukesh Dommaraju in a classical game in Stavanger before the Norwegian wondered why he was ...

FILIPINO icon Eugene Torre is batting for standard chess to be a regular event in the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games. The 71-year-old Asia’s first Grandmaster (GM) and playing national team coach is ...

CITY OF NEWBURGH — Matthew Tether unrolled a world champion-standard chess mat and plopped it on the sidewalk near the front steps of Baptist Temple Church. "This is where it all began," he said. The ...

Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia (not pictured) are in fact in Dubai battling for the 2021 World Chess Championship. The grandmasters — the world Nos. 1 and 5, respectively — ...

Vietnam number one chess player Le Quang Liem has reached his career-high position of 14th on the standard chess Elo ranking, surpassing the reigning world champion Ding Liren. In the final game of ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Free Chess: Standard II Set This set is inspired by a few real world sets. This DLC includes: -6 Unique Chess Pieces. Games metadata is powered by IGDB.com ...