The World Chess Championship, underway in India, features a faceoff between the sport's heavyweights. Guest host Don Gonyea can't help but inject politics to his conversation with NPR's Tom Goldman, ...

Magnus playing beach volleyball in front of journalists in Kragero during his training for the chess championship. August 2013. Magnus playing beach volleyball in front of journalists in Kragero ...

The governing body for world chess has voted to allow Russian and Belarusian youth players to compete under their national symbols in line with recommendations from the International Olympic Committee ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby Fischer in one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well as a metaphor for ...