Square Chessmaster Anything but Pawn | News | The Harvard Crimson“I smoked a lot of pot and played a lot of chess,” Turnbull says. He played chess mostly at the Berkeley Student Union for 25 ...

Is she a pawn or a queen and is this really how chess players should be judged? The World Chess Beauty Contest ranks a 16-year-old Australian as the world's most beautiful woman in the game.

Chess coach Daniel Greiner explains how a “nine-point pawn” plays a crucial role in deciding the outcome of a game.

The 57-year-old Kasparov is widely seen as the greatest chess player of all-time, having been ranked No. 1 in the world from 1984 all the way up until his retirement in 2005.

Both Blitzstein and Elkies are known to be terrific chess players. Blitzstein is ranked as an “Expert” by the US Chess Federation, placing him in the 98th percentile of tournament players.

Initial Pawn move: When a pawn is still in its initial position, i.e. on the 2nd rank as white and the 7th rank as black, we have the option of moving the pawn ahead by two squares instead of one ...

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 ...

Since 2013, the Bronx-based youth chess club, Project Pawn, has helped thousands of students in public schools find themselves through the game of chess. "We do want every kid to learn how to play ...

The chess world waited on the edges of their seats. If he did, Carlsen would not be able to capture the pawn right away, as that would leave his knight undefended, allowing the bishop on c3 to ...

The Chess by the Numbers model gives Carlsen a 98.5 percent chance to retain his title and cement his status as the greatest of all time. The match rests tomorrow, and Game 9 begins Tuesday at 7: ...