The chess puzzle may have had an early and accomplished aficionado: Leonardo da Vinci. A manuscript penned around 1500 gives experts reason to believe da Vinci may have come up with the striking and ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice. In the summer of 1972, the world's attention was ...

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 and ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was ...

Want to improve your chess game? Discover Chessly for strategies to boost your chess elo. This video explores various chess ...

Chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa competing in a 2017 tournament as a 12-year-old. | Vysotsky/CC BY-SA 4.0 Playing one’s natural ...