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The 2019 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) kicked off in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. The best chess players from all over the world assembled in the coastal city to fight.

Visitors can do the play game on chess boards inside, move life-sized chess pieces around the front patio and buy all kinds of chess merchandise.

The Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League is comprised of teams from around the world who compete online at chess.com . This year's finals took.

Features, Lifestyle, Sport - When you ask Benjamin Bok a question, first there is a silence of five to ten seconds. Then, a detailed answer, sometimes even more ...

Today FIDE has released new regulations for the upcoming World Championship cycle (both Open and Women). The overall championship match is being ...

The Grenke Chess Classic, one of the top chess events in the world, is underway in Germany. The tournament runs April 20-29. The event is a round-robin,

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 25, 2011 - Having competed in six prior U.S. Championships, including the past two here at the Chess ...

A little-known Missouri nonprofit has filed an elections complaint against Chesterfield officials, alleging they spent city money campaigning against advocacy ...

If you're tired of playing chess against that same friend over and over again, why not team up with them instead? Bughouse is a fast-paced variant of chess.

The St. Louis Arch Bishops are going back to the Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League final four in San Francisco. To make it to the final rounds, they ...

You know what the Knight's Tour is: move the knight so it visits every square of the chessboard just once. There are around 30 trillion ways to do this, but it is ...

The U.S. Chess Championship and U.S. Women's Championship are the marquee events of American chess and for the last 11 years, the St. Louis Chess Club ...

Regarding Jack Litzinger's March 23 letter “It's not just guns: Other weapons used for violence”: I agree with the letter writer in one respect. I, too, would rather be ...

Rex Sinquefield understands the game of chess. Now, he is applying one of the game's classic opening moves in the political arena.

Moral of the story: Don't call your wife 'Baby,' or compliment your friend. You never know what unhinged person is listening for a chance to wreck you.