Chess, Dejan Joveljic says, is all about thinking ahead, being patient and working the board to your advantage. And if you do all that correctly and in concert, you can bend an opponent to your will.

In our second game, I had the black pieces. I steered into one of my favorite lines of the rock-solid Caro-Kann. Before too long, I was able to exchange off some of Sharansky’s most actively placed ...

What do Pope John Paul II, Benjamin Franklin, St. Theresa of Avila and Harry Potter possibly have in common? Their love for chess, of course. “Life is kind of chess,” wrote Franklin, “with struggle, ...

I am going to fully admit that my knowledge of chess is fairly limited, beyond having played it as a kid and then again with my kids until they could beat me. I don’t truly consider it a sport, at ...

Cheating seems to become more prevalent in competitions every day. Be it cycling, football, baseball, poker, professional fishing, esports or even chess, scandals are emerging at a shocking rate.