ARLINGTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On October 4 th, 2025, the world’s spotlight turns to Arlington as America’s finest take on India’s stars in Checkmate: USA vs. India, a landmark global chess ...

In the game of chess, every single move contributes to the overall outcome. All 16 pawns—the queen, knights, bishops and others—provide unique value to a player. The queen is the most powerful piece ...

During a blitz round of the European Women’s Blitz Chess Championship, a player quickly gained a huge advantage against a ...

Junior Jaewon Kim shifted in his seat, staring down at the black and white chess board as he thought hard about what his next move would be. With time running out, he quickly advanced his rook up the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If the deals close, it’s a reunion for Fielder and Stone, who collaborated on Showtime’s The Curse. Fielder is attached to direct, ...

Chess is currently in the middle of its third boom in popularity in recent years. The ancient sport had its first popularity boom during COVID lockdowns when many people, including prominent streamers ...

Indie game developer and publisher ManaVoid Entertainment, along with BadRez Games, announced Checkmate Showdown over the weekend. The game will bring all of the excitement of a fighting title to the ...

Checkmate! I am sure that was my mindset when I was in private practice and wanted to win a case for my client. I wanted to achieve checkmate, to trap the opposing party so they had no legal move that ...

At Saint Joseph's University, hundreds of kids gathered on Saturday for the 17th annual PECO-ASAP Checkmate Violence Chess Marathon. It's where Brandon Tran, 16, is learning skills to, not only win at ...

In 2014, a chess competitor collapsed during his final match of the Chess Olympiad in Norway. Within hours, another was found dead in his hotel room. Earlier, a chess grandmaster died of a heart ...