It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match. Amid decades of discussion and chess theory into the subject, the ...

New research using chess960 shows that changing the starting layout can rebalance chess and alter how difficult early ...

A few "short" years ago, during my sophomore year at The City College of New York, some fellow Caribbean classmates told me that the education department was offering a "free" course, called Thinking ...

In a historic moment for chess, Gukesh Dommaraju, an 18-year-old prodigy from Chennai, India, has become the youngest world chess champion ever. He won the championship by defeating China's Ding Liren ...

"Chess is the great equalizer," Principal Salome Thomas-El said. A principal at an economically disadvantaged school has spent more than 30 years teaching his students life lessons through the game of ...

I never understood the benefits of chess because I never learned to play the game. As a kid I would watch the adults play the game and sit for hours methodically choosing their moves. In fact, I ...

It is well-known that people tend to be overconfident in their abilities. You may overestimate your chances of getting an interview for a job, answering a question correctly, or succeeding at a New ...