Even if your knowledge of chess is limited to that scene in the first Harry Potter movie, there's one chess player whose name you probably know. Bobby Fischer was such an iconic American player that ...

The chess puzzle may have had an early and accomplished aficionado: Leonardo da Vinci. A manuscript penned around 1500 gives experts reason to believe da Vinci may have come up with the striking and ...

Netflix released the trailer for limited series “The Queen’s Gambit” on Thursday, showing the struggle Anya Taylor-Joy’s Beth Harmon faces as she tries to conquer the male-dominated world of ...

Chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa competing in a 2017 tournament as a 12-year-old. | Vysotsky/CC BY-SA 4.0 Playing one’s natural ...

Hikaru Nakamura stirred controversy by reaching the Candidates Tournament through a less traditional route. Taking advantage ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was ...

Bobby Fischer, the Brooklyn high-school dropout who became a Cold War icon by beating the Russians at their game – then turned into a paranoid recluse who cheered the 9/11 attacks – has died. Fischer, ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice. In the summer of 1972, the world's attention was ...

Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic American chess genius who became a Cold War hero with his 1972 defeat of Soviet champion Boris Spassky but fell from grace in later decades when he became a recluse and ...

In the middle of “Saving Private Ryan,” as tension among the squad reaches a boiling point, Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) does something unexpected. He reveals who he was before the war. “I’m a ...

During a postcollege stint as a blackjack dealer in Atlantic City, freelance writer Hallman discovered the chess community that thrives in dealer lounges. There he met 39-year-old chess master Glenn ...