Chess

HAMMOND — Three chess teams from Goshen finished in the top five in the state Saturday at the Scholastic Chess of Indiana Team Finals at Hammond Morton High School. Placing second in Indiana in the Eighth Grade/Under division was the Goshen Middle School team of Logan Miller, Cole Johnston, ...

Drop in to observe ranked Tampa Bay area chess players battle it out on the chess board throughout the day. Additional chess boards will be available for visitors to play spontaneous games as well. Members of the St. Petersburg Chess Club, Acor Chess Academy coaches and other area chess club ...

He is able to do this because an anonymous wealthy benefactor signed him to a 10-year contract to teach chess in the rural setting where most of the kids had never seen a chess board before he arrived. Bulington, who has taught chess for more than 25 years, caught the benefactor's eye after coaching ...

Thomas Heming, a Grade 1 student from Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Elementary School, plays some emotional chess during the 41st annual Hamilton Wentworth Catholic School Board's Elementary Chess Tournament. About 185 students from Grade 1 through Grade 8 took part. Thomas Heming, a Grade 1 ...

For the first time since Bobby Fischer won the world chess championship in 1972, an American-born player has won the right to play for the world title. Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana won the Candidates tournament in Berlin Tuesday, which means he'll play a 12-game match against world champion ...

In what's being billed as a historic result for American chess, 25-year-old Fabiano Caruana has emerged after an 18-day competition in Berlin, Germany, as the next challenger for the World Championship title. He will face off against reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway in November in a ...

The story of “Chess” takes place during the Cold War era, and involves a politically-driven chess tournament between American grandmaster Freddie Trumper and Russian grandmaster Anatoly Sergievsky, as well as their fight over the heart of the same woman. The presence of chess in this show functions ...

After 13 of the 14 rounds in the Candidates Chess Tournament, Fabiano Caruana of the United States is in first place. On his heels is Sergey Karjakin of Russia who defeated Caruana in the 12th round. This week's position is from that game. Karjakin is white; Caruana, black. The computers recommend ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's surprise visit to China's President Xi Jinping has left many wondering how it will influence the next move on the global chess board of power. The meeting marks a warming of relations between Pyongyang and its sole economic supporter, and paves the way to proposed summits with ...

His stunning performance so much impressed the chess fraternity that Chess Association of Malawi (Chessam) executive member, Susan Namangale, in partnership with CBR Tours and Travel decided to sponsor the maestro that he flies back instead of travelling by road as he did when he went there.

KICKOFF: NRL recruitment the ultimate game of chess ... In reality it's like a game of chess. Not all pieces on the board are a created equal but given the right position, make the right move, and a pawn can fell a king. A self-indulgent metaphor perhaps but, simply put, when it comes to recruitment and ...

Young, the executive director, highlights that women remain woefully underrepresented at most chess competitions. Internationally, just one of the world's 100 top ranked players is female. "We have 32 percent girls, which isn't enough, but it's unheard of in the world of chess," she said. Nearby, a gaggle of ...

It was all part of the fourteenth annual tournament organized by the Sacramento Valley Scholarstic Chess League and it attracted students from all over the north state, including 11-year-old Landon Parks. The clock begins to tick and fifth-grader Landon Parks is making his first move at the championship ...

The international, brain-challenging sport of chess is enjoying a resurgence in Tenterfield with the recent arrival of an expert in the game who is happy to share his knowledge. John Lavery is also mounting a chess competition through the school holidays to offer children an alternative to screen time.

I'm not a scientist or a business person, but I have followed artificial intelligence very closely since I was a professional chess player in my teens and early 20s. Chess has been very central to AI, and the gains have been incredible. When computer chess first started, it was hard to tell for a while if it was a ...

It's funny how some tournaments are full of exciting, entertaining games while others aren't. The B group at Tata Steel is one example, and so is this year's Aeroflot Open. Today's game is the third game of the week from the event. It features one of this column's favorites, the wonderfully indifferent Ukrainian, ...

Serbia is in the endgame and they are losing. It's a matter of time before either Serbia surrenders or is checkmated. I'm actually rated in the low 1600's in chess, find me at Chess.com if you would like to play. Serbian Snowflakes are welcome to play, however the heat that I bring will most likely melt you.

Former world champion chess player Garry Kasparov famously beat 32 computers at chess simultaneously before being defeated by the Deep Blue AI in 1997. Kasparov has since taken a firm stance in support of machine learning and claims that many critics do not understand the difference between an ...

Grandmaster SP Sethuraman defeated GM Victor Bologan with black pieces in the final round to finish second in the prestigious Aeroflot Open Chess tournament in Moscow on Wednesday. The 25-year-old, who started the tournament with a starting rank of 15, registered five victories and three draws in the ...

Another killer week of iOS game releases has arrived, featuring a new battle royale game (with blocky pixel fighters), a snowboarding adventure and a 3D chess game you can play with your friends. The mobile version of Tekken has arrived as well, if you want to hone your fighting skills on the go as well as ...

The time for strong round-robin tournaments at the Saint Louis Chess Club (STLCC) is about to restart! The U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Championship are the traditional big tournaments in the spring, but players are looking for other strong tournaments to sharpen their skills, openings, tactics ...

White has busted open black's king-side. To do so, white made the exchange sacrifice of a rook for a knight on h5. This allowed the white queen to check from g5, as shown in this week's problem. Black mistakenly retreated its king to f8 rather h8. White now mates black in eight moves, albeit many of these ...

In 1987, Lakeside Elementary School in East Grand Rapids added Chess Club to its after-school activity list. Thirty-one years later, the club continues to be strong and draw more and more students every year. "When I took over as instructor, I knew it had to continue," said Shannon Mitchell, who is a ...

The tournament, put on by Bay Area Chess and hosted for the first time by the Taylor Farms Center for Learning, was a way for anyone who may have interest in playing in a sanctioned tournament, but may not have the experience, to gain some valuable knowledge about how those tournaments work, ...

College-age grandmasters, father-son bonding over knights and bishops, and an intense desire to keep kids off screens — even if only for a few hours — inspired scores of Bay Area families to head to Golden Gate Park on Saturday for an annual chess competition that has grown in numbers since its ...

The annual Aeroflot Chess Festival in Moscow is one of Europe's biggest and strongest open Swisses. Though it essentially caters to Russian and Eastern European players, it still draws a very strong field. This is the tournament's 16 th year, and it has 60 grandmasters in the 92-player field. The sole ...