Two of the world’s best chess players took on 26 kids Monday in a match of speed chess, a prelude to a three-day invitational in Santa Rosa. The boy rested his head on a picnic table overlooking a ...

Varuzhan Akobian was a boy of only 5 years old when he discovered the game of chess. His father was his first opponent, and the match took place shortly after Akobian’s family moved to Mongolia from ...

7th and 8th rounds of Corus Chess Festival held on January 23 and 24 in the Dutch city of Wijk aan Zee. Armenian grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian in the 7th round met with Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Romania) ...

Wesley So raised his points total to 5.5 points - good for fourth place and 1.5 behind leader Hikaru Nakamura - days after the costly forfeiture of a match against fellow GM Varuzhan Akobian.

Akobian will be one of only 24 elite chess players competing for the coveted title at the Chess Club & Scholastic Center of St. Louis, a spot he earned based on his exceptional competitive ranking, ...

Position No. 6089: White to play and win. From the game Dariusz Mikrut-Maria Gosciniak, Warsaw 2009. Solution to Position No. 6088: Black wins with 1 . . . Qxf2+! 2 Kxf2 Re2+ 3 Kxf3 (or 3 Kg1 f2 mate) ...

Alabama's scholastic chess players settle in for their first round game at the recent Vulcan Open, in Birmingham. Alabama has many talented young players who are beginning to make their mark in ...

Chess players often talk of the creative aspect of chess the role of imagination in conceiving strategies. Sometimes the desire to execute an original plan can overwhelm even the desire to win.