The virtual match "Kasparov vs. the World" ends in chess suicide, offering a glimpse into the nature of online community.

The intellectual pastime is the latest symbol in the struggle between the country's democratic reformers and Islamic clerics.

A corrective to "Won't Back Down," this doc about tween chess champs proves public schools may not be hopeless

Don't call the 18-year-old boy king of chess -- defending his title this weekend -- a geek. He rules a new generation of champs raised on hip-hop and video games.

Champion's remains exhumed in July for paternity test. Struggle for his estate continues

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America's greatest chess player was completely nuts -- but the rest of us were infected by Cold War madness too

As the Beltway wise men all lined up behind a war, the people spoke loudly against it -- and humiliated the elites

Elise LeGrow offers fresh interpretations of classic songs on Salon Stage

Publisher slams New York Times for omitting book title with B-word.

How did one of the greatest chess players of all time end up a paranoid, hate-filled old man?

The Auschwitz Memorial called out the human chess game scene, claiming that it could fuel Holocaust denial

Arguably the greatest chess player of all time (and one of the weirdest human beings) is detained in Japan, wanted by the U.S. Will he escape an ignominious fool's mate?

"Eccentric" head of the World Chess Federation challenged the embattled Libyan leader to a game on Sunday night

With the advent of machine learning, computers can think — sort of. Here’s what that means for the future