It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match. Amid decades of discussion and chess theory into the subject, the ...

Is there a cheating scandal in the big leagues of international chess? Hans Niemann, a 19-year-old player known for his livestreams on Twitch, defeated the grandmaster and current world champion, ...

Stockfish is a powerful chess analysis app. Play two-player games on the beautiful chess board, or get instant accurate analysis of any game. Stockfish will tell you who's winning and calculate the ...

My father grew up playing chess in his native Philippines, where the game is hugely popular. He became fairly skilled, and even won a few tournaments after immigrating to the U.S. Of course he was ...

The World Chess Championship was already a week old when something stunning happened in Game 6: after nearly eight hours of play last Friday, someone actually won. It was the first time in five years ...

These words, spoken in a bright Croatian accent, herald the start of every video by the YouTube chess guru Agadmator. If you’re one of the world’s hardcore chess neophytes who fell hard in the ...