Vantika Agrawal humbled former World champion Anna Ushenina in the second round of FIDE Women's World Chess Cup in Batumi, ...

When two of the most advanced AI models lost to a 1979 chess game, it exposed how sounding smart isn’t the same as actually ...

e4 (King's Pawn Opening) tends to start the game with a bang, leading to positions with pieces flying out fast and furious ...

Another former women's world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk was held to a draw by India's Padmini Rout in a remarkable result.

India’s Koneru Humpy inched closer to the next round by winning with black pieces against Uzbekistan’s Afruza Khamdamova while emerging talent Vantika Agrawal humbled former champion Anna Ushenina in ...

For its part, Video Chess is very basic chess software, even if creating a working engine within 4KB is its own kind of ...

A pawn race occurs when both sides have passed pawns, and each side rushes to promote their pawn to a Queen. In a pawn race, every tempo (a single move) counts. Again, the king's activity and the ...

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Tuesday's pizza break. “ When you see a pawn you should see potential,” Trimble said. “ They are all pawns with potential and power if they make the right choices, and I want them to see that.” If ...

To be fair, chess even today remains a male-predominant pastime, with semi-active Chinese GM Hou Yifan, the world’s highest rated woman, coming in at No. 126 on the latest FIDE world rankings.

For instance, moving the pawn in front of the queen two squares forward, from D2 to D4, is a popular chess opener. About three-quarters of the players in the study, roughly 110,000 individuals ...