The University hosted the Connecticut State Chess Championship in Beckham Hall on Sunday, Nov. 12. It was the largest tournament in Connecticut history, featuring 220 players from 11 different states.

Daniel Naroditsky, a 29-year-old chess grandmaster who gained viral fame for winning games while wearing a blindfold, has died. The Charlotte Chess Center (N.C.) announced his death Monday in a joint ...

PARIS, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has approved a new global competition set up by Norway Chess that will crown a "World Combined Champion" across three time formats — ...

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The winner will receive USD 70,000, while the runner-up gets USD 50,000. If the match ends in a tie, both players will split USD 60,000 equally. An additional USD 24,000 in bonus money is available ...

Pawn pushers at a couple of low-stakes chess tournaments in Iowa and Louisiana recently sat down at their boards only to discover a surprising competitor: one of the highest rated chess players ever ...

If you’ve heard anything about the ’80s musical “Chess,” it’s probably this: catchy songs, nonsensical story. Clearly, they know the challenge ahead as a fresh take on “Chess” opens this month at New ...

Five-time chess world champion, Magnus Carlsen, has entered a new phase of his life. Magnus and his wife, Ella Victoria, were blessed with their first child on September 27. Victoria broke the good ...

In 2010, a day after drumming before 27,000 blues fans, with pop star John Mayer’s trio at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in a Bridgeview soccer stadium, prolific session musician Steve Jordan ...

Chess pieces are assembled on a board at the Albany Chess Center on Sept. 19 in Colonie. Founder John Oyeyemi Fawole and his team operate the center seven days a week and run programming not just at ...

On the face of it, playing chess and competing in the NBA couldn’t be further apart. One requires monk-like levels of silent concentration – particularly in classical chess – while the other demands ...