You don’t get to be the world No. 1-ranked chess player without plotting multiple moves ahead. “I have a simple rule in life, if you are to fight the champ in anything – do it virtually,” quipped ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2021 U.S. Chess Championship winners are Asian Americans Grandmaster Wesley So and International Master Carissa Yip. The ...

World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen defeated challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi in the 2021 World Chess Championship, extending Carlsen’s eight-year reign. Norway's World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, ...

Chess is not known for fireworks, but Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen tested that theory on Friday as he clinched the Chess World Championship in style. The championship, held in a soundproof ...

The question of whether or not chess is a sport has always been a gray area. The game is easy to understand and watch, but an immense amount of training and talent are needed to become a certified ...

More than a dozen children gather under a canopy in Makoko, the floating slum in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial center. Aged 8 to 18, they are focused on the chess boards before them, calculating moves ...

Even by the standards of chess prodigies, Hou Yifan stood out. It wasn’t so much the way she played the game—dynamically but not dazzlingly, with an aggressive but flexible style. It was that she was ...