Move over, football and basketball stars. Now chess players are also being offered scholarships as colleges look to world-class chess play to try to enhance their public image. Seven years ago, the ...
An incredible collection of photographs documenting the intersection of chess and culture is published by FUEL, in the year FIDE (the International Chess Federation) celebrates its 100th anniversary.
Deep Blue -- a chess-playing computer developed by IBM -- became the first piece of artificial intelligence to win both a chess game and a chess match against a reigning world champion, beating ...