Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic American chess genius who became a Cold War hero with his 1972 defeat of Soviet champion Boris Spassky but fell from grace in later decades when he became a recluse ...

He learned to play chess when he was 6 years old; within a decade, he would dominate the game. "I give 98 percent of my mental energy to chess," he said, and he lived up to his words.

The former Russian chess champion, Garry Kasparov, said Fischer’s ascent in the chess world in the 1960s and his promotion of chess worldwide was “a revolutionary breakthrough” for the game. But ...

Since the age of six chess had been his life. He spent hour after hour, day after day, studying the game. At the age of 11, he - in his own words - "just got good". By 15, he was a grand master, the ...

Chess.com has averaged 27.5 million games played per day in January and is on track for more than 850 million games this month — 40% more than any month in the company's history, per the Journal.

When you play the game, what matters is how good you are over the board,” Gift of Chess founder Russell Makofsky said. “I like chess porque es muy divertido,” said the young chess genius ...

Chess aficionados in New York City were in for a pleasant surprise over the weekend. Spurs phenom Victor Wembanyama initially asked fans on X to direct him to the best public spot to play chess ...