The ancient, intellectually challenging game of chess originated in India and is played by two players on a checkerboard consisting of 64 squares, with 32 pieces divided equally by color. Each piece has its own role and ability to perform a unique...

Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players. Sometimes called Western Chess or International Chess to distinguish it from its predecessors and other chess variants, the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe...

Anything that people do, others will study them doing it, and yet more will come along and try to change the rules. David Pritchard's new book, The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, goes one stage further. It is the result of a lifetime's study of...

Over 200 years ago, in a celebrated essay entitled "The Morals of Chess", Benjamin Franklin argued that chess is good for you. He contended that playing the game encouraged the development of such characteristics as fortitude, realism and a care for detail, essential for...

The father of a British chess prodigy who fell to her death days before his trial was to begin was acquitted Thursday of raping her.Jessica Gilbert was only 11 when she won the Women's World Amateur Championship, beating many older competitors and becoming one of...

Police prevented chess champion and opposition leader Garry Kasparov from boarding a flight Friday to the city of Samara, where he planned to take part in a protest march coinciding with a Russia-EU summit, an aide said.Kasparov said police at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport took his...

This essay is about the difference between chess and checkers.