South Texas is the chess capital of the state, due in large part to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Its chess team is preparing to defend its national title in competitive collegiate chess.

Doomscrolling may feel relaxing, but it slowly erodes your focus. So how do you protect your brain? The answer is simple: chess.

A Dutchman, he was considered the best player outside the Soviet Union for two decades, although he described himself as ...

Medieval manuscripts, paintings and chess sets reveal that the so-called "game of kings" defied social structures and racial attitudes by celebrating the intellectual prowess of winners irrespective ...

An 8-year-old chess prodigy made history as the youngest player to defeat a chess grandmaster. The boy, Aswath Kaushik, beat Jacek Stopa at a chess tournament in Switzerland. Kaushik, who was born in ...