Chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by actress Anya Taylor-Joy, reads a chess pamphlet in Netflix's miniseries "The Queen Gambit." Netflix Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" has inspired a surge of interest ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

Throughout human history, one game has remained a staple of cultures, played by kings, nobles, citizens, and peasants alike. The game we are talking about is over a millennium old, and today is played ...

The celebrated world of competitive chess is sustained by prodigious talent but shadowed by emotional strain. From Morphy to Naroditsky, the game reveals how genius and fragility often travel together ...

Krishna and Radha playing chaturanga. Source: Wikicommons/public domain The Gupta emperor Kumaragupta (r. 414-455 CE) founded the Nalanda mahavira (monastic university), which is regarded as the world ...

Beyond the chess board lies two players and one victor––a chess match is only as good as its champion. This is certainly understood in the World Chess Hall of Fame’s newest exhibition, Clash for the ...

Born in 2022, Sarwangya has been ranked by FIDE, the international governing body of chess after multiple wins over ranked ...

Three-year-old Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha from India, who started playing last year, has become the youngest to achieve an ...

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Gaurav Dutta, chess fan: For me, the greatest sacrifice(s) would be from “The Polish Immortal Game” (Glucksberg, or Glinksberg, depending on your ...

Iran’s embassy in India invoked the shared history of chess and backgammon to underscore 2,000 years of cultural ties, ...

Magnus Carlsen is the odds-on favorite to retain his title as World Chess Champion in a showdown this month against Sergey Karjakin. Given how well the 25-year-old Norwegian is playing, that's no ...