“Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn’t make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be!” If you ask a chess player to elucidate this inspiring quote ...

One has to be better than good to win at the World Chess Championship. One has to be nearly perfect. Fabiano Caruana, the world No. 2, was reminded of that today in his eighth game against the ...

NEW YORK — A chess club founded in the Bronx has changed the lives of thousands of kids across New York City, and now they're opening up their very first location where they got their roots. Project ...

Q: Can White win this position, with White’s turn to play? With only a King and a Pawn for White and a lone King for Black on the board, you might think there isn’t much you can do.. But then you ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice. In the summer of 1972, the world's attention was ...