The researchers analyzed 3.45 million chess games to examine the move choices made by master-level chess players in three chess opening positions. Chess positions are written in algebraic notation, ...
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 ...
No sports fan need be reminded of the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, but what about the agony of victory, the unraveling that can occur when your triumph is so complete there are no more ...
Anna Cramling Chess on MSN

1 move decided everything

Description: She enters round seven of the European Women’s Blitz Chess Championship against a higher-rated French Woman FIDE ...
Most of us know the basics of chess: You move pawns and pieces — rooks, knights, bishops and a queen — around a checkerboard in a bid to capture your opponent’s king, without losing your own. Each ...
On the night of November 8, twelve hours before facing off in the inaugural match of the World Chess Championship in London, Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, the world’s top grandmasters, were ...