Last fortnight, we discussed ‘Pattern Recognition in Chess’, aided by basic checkmate patterns like the Back Rank Checkmate with the rook and the Queen. Let us continue where we left off in our ...

Sam Cassidy twirls his red bangs as he contemplates his next move and sets the rook down. “Check.” His opponent, Amera Hemming, reaches out to move her chess piece and freezes her arm above the board ...

Castling is a magic move in Chess where 2 pieces, the King and the Rook, move at the same time. The Rook gets developed towards the centre and the King finds a safe haven behind its own pawns on one ...

A chessboard awaits the next round just outside the ring during a chessboxing match in Berlin in 2012 AP Images There’s a boxing ring planted in the middle of a London nightclub. So far, nothing too ...

Checkmate, San Francisco. An online and in-person hybrid chess event is coming to The City. The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, the world’s first year-long online chess series designed to determine ...

During a blitz round of the European Women’s Blitz Chess Championship, a player quickly gained a huge advantage against a strong Ukrainian Woman International Master and even won an extra piece early ...