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 ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Yesterday, January 22, 6th tour of the 72nd Corus Chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee (Holland) was held. In the 6th tour, grandmaster group B participant, Armenian chess player ...

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.

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 ...

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) ...

The First Annual Paradise Ridge Winery Grand Master Chess Match. Event promoter: Thomas Southerland Presents. (Promoter and organizer of the Akobian - Shulman Match.) World famous Grand Masters ...

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 ...

Alexander Shabalov, a 35-year-old grandmaster from Pittsburgh, won the U.S. Chess Championship on Saturday night. The nine-round tournament in Seattle featured 58 of the nation’s top players, ...

Wesley So is half a point ahead entering the eighth round. WESLEY So stayed on top of the US Chess Championships after a draw against Varuzhan Akobian in the seventh round in St. Louis, Missouri, ...