The first machine had a vertical board. Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position. The human’s lone black king ...

He's still in pre-school and has been playing the game for just over a year. But he's already done enough to become the ...

Let's see how: Battery: Queen and Bishop on the same diagonal or Queen and Rook on the same file. A Battery in chess refers to the alignment of two pieces having the same ability along the same ...

In 1929 and 1930, the Cambridge top board lost his queen very early, once to a knight fork and then to a bishop pin. Matches ...

Freestyle Chess' randomized back rank saw all four quarterfinals begin ... Bxa2 and that opened up the board for Caruana's rook on a1, which later claimed plenty of material as the pair traded piece ...

Indian Grandmasters R Praggnanandhaa and Aravindh Chithambaram came out as joint-leaders after the end of Round 4.

Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram won the Prague Chess Masters 2025 with an impressive 6/9 points. His draw in the final ...