In the above diagram, if the Black King were on e7 instead of g7, OR, since it is Black’s turn to play after 1.a4, if the Black King were on f7 with 1…Ke7 here, then Black could stop the pawn ...

Q: Can White win this position, with White’s turn to play? With only a King and a Pawn for White and a lone King for Black on the board, you might think there isn’t much you can do.. But then ...

‘Pawn Sacrifice,’ a new movie directed by Edward Zwick and starring Tobey Maguire as Fischer and Liev Schreiber as Mr. Spassky, which opens September 16, recounts Fischer’s rise to prom… ...

PAWN TAKES KING By . Stephen Lynch. ... Retired from chess since 2005, Kasparov created the United Civil Front, a political group that opposes the increasingly dictatorial rule of Vladimir Putin.

Passed pawn — A pawn with no opposing pawns on the same or adjacent files between it and the eighth rank. Colloquially called a “passer.” Piece — A rook, bishop, knight, pawn, king or queen.

In another moment, a smirking Eze declared “en passant”, the name of a rare diagonal pawn capture that often catches novices off guard. Eze’s Palace have come from behind to win just once ...

Sports; Chess Is the New King of the Pandemic With professional sports no closer to returning, grandmasters and pawn pushers alike are filling the time with one of the world’s oldest games ...

After 27. Qa4! (threatening both the a-pawn and 28. Qg4+ Kb8 29. Qxg7) g5 28. Qxa7 Rf4 29. Qa6+ Kb8 30. Qd3 Be7 31. Qxh7 g4 32. Kg3, Black resigns as he has lost two more pawns and it’s hopeless ...

The music, math, and chess prodigy greeted Blitzstein happily.“I guess if you don’t have a king you lose automatically,” Elkies teased, referencing Blitzstein’s missing pieces.

In Prison, Chess is King in Helping to Educate Inmates ... 37 years old, who used his king to take Mr. Ashley’s last pawn. That left Mr. Arcelay and Mr. Ashley with a king as their last piece. ...

One has to be better than good to win at the World Chess Championship. One has to be nearly perfect. Fabiano Caruana, the world No. 2, was reminded of that toda… ...