“Without work, talent is lost,” said the “queen of chess”. It has been a long, hard journey for Judit Polgár. Speaking at an event held this week by the UCD Chess Society, Polgár recalled that, before ...

Garry Kasparov would leave his opponents in a trance and the mesmerising impact was transferred to 600 top entrepreneurs from across the globe here on Friday. In the Capital at the invitation of ...

Although chess has been played for centuries, it wasn’t until the 19th century that the game really took off in Europe and the U.S. Yet not everyone had a favorable view of this crazy new fad. Several ...

A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old chess champion. Ding Liren, top right, and Gukesh Dommaraju, top left, are seen during Game 1 of the ...

For the estimated 600 million chess players around the world, the ancient sport is taught as a game of skill and savage elegance, played out on a board where both sides are equal. But in South Africa, ...