A lauded Scandinavian chess player was so angered by an opponent’s behavior during a game that he took drastic action. King Cnut, who ruled England, Denmark and Norway in the 11th century, was playing ...

How brain-boggling a chess virtuoso is Magnus Carlsen, the 25-year-old Norwegian prodigy and reigning World Chess Champion? In the light and lively portrait-of-a-genius documentary “Magnus,” Carlsen ...

Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian chess champion and model, is bringing a new audience to the game Credit: Photo: AP At 12 o’clock today, BBC Radio 4 is airing the fouth programme in the second series of ...

Today, for the first time, I got to see some of the magnificent Lewis chess pieces first-hand, in Edinburgh's National Museum of Scotland. I wrote about them in my book The Immortal Game (excerpt ...