Host Sue Perkins does her best to give it "warm, 'Bake-Off' vibes" and the 12 contestants have clearly been chosen for their ...

Games are fun. You might have played a card game like Go Fish. Checkers might have been an early game you learned. Monopoly ...

A man who started playing chess to beat boredom in lockdown is to take part in a new BBC show about the game. Chess Masters: ...

Karan Singh co-founded the fortnightly event to recreate a chess club he found while doing an internship in London. "Social spaces for young people are often limited to a bar or a club. We wanted to ...

A LOT of people say playing chess sharpens the mind. It exercises the brain and can improve cognitive health and memory. When Domingo Santos tells you that, it is hard not to believe. After all, Tatay ...

Whenever my family would have parties, I'd go around and ask people if they wanted to play chess, and the answer was always no! There was no chess club at school, so it sort of drifted with me and ...

There are an estimated six million people regularly playing chess in the UK, with celebrity fans around the world including Will Smith, Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Cole. In Chess Masters ...

“I almost fell asleep,” Buettner said. “It was so boring just to watch two people play chess.” The pair devised a new chess tour to address their concerns. Carlsen suggested the rules: Chess960, or ...

Chess enthusiasts gathered in Ireland’s Pub Feb. 28 for Campus Recreation’s Friendly Chess Tournament. Knights, bishops and ...

Every chess master was once a beginner, according to chess player and author Irving Chernev. And 45 Marshalltown Community School District (MCSD) students at Lenihan Intermediate School might have ...