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, ...

Algebraic notation is the standard way chess players record their moves. By Isaac Aronow The standard method of recording moves in a chess game is known as algebraic notation. The name isn’t quite ...

CITY OF NEWBURGH — Matthew Tether unrolled a world champion-standard chess mat and plopped it on the sidewalk near the front steps of Baptist Temple Church. "This is where it all began," he said. The ...

I read with interest your article “Is it checkmate for the standard version of chess?”. As the great-grandson of the mathematician Frank Morley, who started his life as an avid chess player at age 10, ...