That game remains the longest in World Championship history, a brutal 7-hour and 45-minute saga that spanned 136 moves. Under ...

It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match ...

PARIS, March 12 (Reuters) - Finding chess boring? Try shuffling your pieces on the back rank and you get Chess960, or Freestyle chess, a variant of the game that favours creativity over preparation, ...

Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...