Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by actress Anya Taylor-Joy, reads a chess pamphlet in Netflix's miniseries "The Queen Gambit." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alexandra Botez says that like Beth Harmon she knows what it's like to not be taken seriously as a female player. Netflix/ ...

US chess champion Bobby Fischer and the two "K"s -- Garry Kasparov and Anatoli Karpov -- have co-written the modern history of the game, with a chapter devoted to East-West confrontation. In the 1970s ...

Nearly 20 years ago, I wrote about a chess-teaching program aimed at children ages 8 and up. It used various arcade-like games to teach kids how chess pieces moved and captured. It was a new concept ...

The air in the grand hall of Valencia’s La Nau cultural space is abuzz with excitement. Chess pieces — from ornate artefacts to contemporary competition sets — line the exhibition cases. It’s May 15 ...

Fischer was an aggressive player said to have an IQ higher than that of Albert Einstein. In the 1970s and 80s, the un-telegenic, cerebral game came alive to capture headlines and become an instrument ...

Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" has inspired a surge of interest in chess around the globe. The series follows the life of fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) in the 1960s. The modern ...