It doesn't take long to get addicted to the ancient and complex game of chess. If you've got competent players to spar with, there's a lot to discover about opening gambits and ways to counter them.

Hundreds of millions of people spend hours of their lives on Facebook every week, but there are some secrets that only a few of them have discovered. For example, last December, a member of the Chess ...

WITH THREE straight national championships under their belt, the Edward R. Murrow High School Chess Team seems to have an enviable secret. “Practice,” said Murrow chess coach Eliot Weiss. “Chess is ...

Looking to improve your chess elo? This video presents essential tips and techniques to enhance your chess game, with ...

There's a secret game hiding on Facebook and you can unlock it, if you know the special code. Even if you don’t really care for chess, you can still impress your friends by creating a new chess game ...

How is it that some routinely smoke their opponents in a game where both sides have the identical force, there’s no luck of the draw, and the entire playing field is out in the open? While there are ...

Secrets in international chess have a low half-life, and as the Bilbao, Spain, portion of the Grand Slam Masters tournament approached, rumors were swirling that ex-world champion Garry Kasparov and ...

In the 1,500 years since the dawn of chess, the ultimate test of cerebral fitness, countless champions have employed innumerable methods in the struggle to truly master the game of kings. But one ...

A chess set reputed to hold a powerful secret and a chess game in which the pawns are human are at the center of Katherine Neville’s historical thriller, “The Fire.” It’s a sequel to Neville’s 1988 ...

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Attention, nerds and Bobby Fischer wannabes: Facebook wants to help you. Well, not really. But it does want you to play a somewhat clandestine game of chess with your friends in its chat messenger app ...