PARIS, March 12 (Reuters) - Finding chess boring? Try shuffling your pieces on the back rank and you get Chess960, or Freestyle chess, a variant of the game that favours creativity over preparation, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For centuries, chess experts have largely agreed that playing white offers a slight starting advantage over black. The standard ...

Le Quang Liem beat "chess king" Ding Liren on Tuesday, marking the first time a Vietnamese player defeated the reigning world champion in standard chess, and helping Vietnam tie China 2-2 at Chess ...

Vietnam number one chess player Le Quang Liem has reached his career-high position of 14th on the standard chess Elo ranking, surpassing the reigning world champion Ding Liren. In the final game of ...

FILIPINO icon Eugene Torre is batting for standard chess to be a regular event in the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games. The 71-year-old Asia’s first Grandmaster (GM) and playing national team coach is ...

A seething Magnus Carlsen slammed his fist into a table after suffering his first defeat by world champion Gukesh Dommaraju in a classical game in Stavanger before the Norwegian wondered why he was ...

PARIS - Finding chess boring? Try shuffling your pieces on the back rank and you get Chess960, or Freestyle chess, a variant of the game that favours creativity over preparation, and backed by chess ...