The sheer number of accounts (often boosted by blue checks) taking the post seriously is staggering. The furious replies ...

The chess world erupted over a cheeky joke from Chess.com asking players for “new name ideas” for one of the game’s pieces.

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.

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 ... in between the two pieces, in the process opening up a direct passage for his bishop to the white king. A reverse check.