ON FEBRUARY 7th the inaugural tournament of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour will begin on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast. My anticipation is immense. At the Weissenhaus Resort, the world’s top ...

Estella Rebecca (Norris) Bucher, 101, passed away Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at York Hospital. She was the wife of the late John Irvin Bucher. A service will be held on January 18, 2025 at 11 a.m ...

Robert George (Bob) Goetz died this past weekend. The exact day is not certain. He lived alone and was found by police, prompted by a call from his anxious sister, Laurie Bond, who had been unable ...

Hannah Goetz is a reporter for WSOC-TV with a focus on covering Cabarrus County, and she joined the news team in August of 2022. Hannah graduated from West Virginia University, and during her time ...

A 17-year-old has crafted the ultimate tool to cheat at chess after jailbreaking Ray-Ban Meta glasses to show the best moves in over-the-board games. Chess cheating has been a controversial ...

The world of chess had a rather tumultuous end to 2024, with top players like Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura taking on FIDE, the global governing body of chess. Carlsen and Nakamura accused FIDE ...

Orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA. But child stardom comes at a price.