Thanks to the pandemic and hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, interest in virtual chess has spiked. More Americans now play chess than tennis and golf combined, and most of that is online. In the ...

If you are taking your first steps in chess, you will need a book for beginners. Time-tested classics are Emanuel Lasker’s “How to play Chess” and Ilya Maizelis’s “Chess”. Lots of letters? Then start ...

Corrected: A previous version of this article referenced the International Chess Federation acronym as ICF. The acronym is FIDE. There are 25 million kids worldwide who play chess competitively, ...

The millennia-old pastime of chess has been enjoying an explosion of interest. Whether people are longing for any engaging hobby to keep themselves sane during the long wait, or they fell prey to a ...

Hoyle Majestic Chess focuses on those new to the game, and it features a fun and innovative way to learn how to play chess. How do you market a new PC chess program? Chess is chess, and today's ...

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Fritz 9 is the latest version of the superpowered chess engine that was able to defeat Garry Kasparov, one of the world's best players. If that sounds like a challenge you're up to then Fritz 9 won't ...

Maurice Ashley knows chess, and he enthusiastically shares that knowledge with kids who want to learn. Inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame, and the first Black person to earn the title of ...

A few "short" years ago, during my sophomore year at The City College of New York, some fellow Caribbean classmates told me that the education department was offering a "free" course, called Thinking ...