The lesson this week is that king-pawn endgames often devolve into a race. The fat king usually loses. Reach Eric Morrow at ...

Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position. The human’s lone black king could be on one of 48 squares in the ...

Maybe you were one of the many people who began playing chess ... as white, and your goal is to use your pieces to take your opponent's black pieces, and eventually checkmate their king.

Chess is played between two opposing armies, black and white. The ultimate goal of the game is to check or checkmate the other King. It happens when the King gets locked in a position to be ...

The self-destruction of the Austrian army in 1788 caused Austria to lose the Battle of Karansebes to the Turks. Karansebes is in modern day Romania. Austrian soldiers mistook each other for the enemy, ...

This is not the first time that Anish has given the chess maestro ... Barua gingerly drags his white bishop diagonally and places it five squares away from the black king. It’s a check.