In the game of chess, every single move contributes to the overall outcome. All 16 pawns—the queen, knights, bishops and others—provide unique value to a player. The queen is the most powerful piece ...

The 2013 U.S. and Women's Chess Championships are under way in St. Louis, Missouri. Host Michel Martin speaks with two of the competition's youngest players. Kayden Troff is the current under-14 World ...

You may have seen him with his chess set at the Starbucks on Padre Island. His name is Phil Shaw and he loves teaching the art of chess to other people. But, he wasn't always a chess pro. “Mostly ...

Checkmate! I am sure that was my mindset when I was in private practice and wanted to win a case for my client. I wanted to achieve checkmate, to trap the opposing party so they had no legal move that ...

Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder are entering the world of chess with A24 for their next project. According to the Hollywood Reporter, A24 won the rights to Checkmate, a feature package based on a book ...

Dennis J. Carroll Kian Morgan, 7, of Taos sat on the bleachers next to his mom Monday licking his wounds and the icing on a consolation chocolate cupcake after being quickly dispatched to the ...

The protagonists of Ronan Bennett’s novels are dispassionate thinkers dragged into political commitment by the sublime forces of history. In The Catastrophist, Mr. Bennett’s 1997 breakthrough thriller ...

BERLIN — Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match. In front of 1,000 cheering fans one recent Saturday ...