It is autumn in earnest, Keats’ “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” and a columnist’s fancy naturally turns to thoughts of positional chess. It’s no secret most chess players are attracted to ...

Sacrificing a queen for a quick checkmate is always fun, but there’s a lot to be said for sacrificing a pawn in the opening that leads to a winning endgame. The positional sacrifice may not get as ...

BIEL (SWITZERLAND): Krishnan Sasikiran came up with some strong positional chess to humble Yannick Pelletier of Switzerland in the first round of the Grandmasters ...

The cerebral, staid world of chess has been shaken by the newly-unveiled 2018 World Chess Championship logo. The image, which shows two chequered bodies wrapped around each other with a chess board ...

A day after opening error handed him his first defeat in the Catalan Chess Circuit, 50-year-old Anup Deshmukh fought back with the black bits at Montcada, Spain, on ...