Netflix’s stylish drama The Queen’s Gambit might just be the surprise hit of the fall. As adapted by a 1983 Walter Tevis novel of the same name, the show’s storytelling is on point, its production ...

Park Slope author David Shenk is hawking a new book — a remarkable history of chess — which is great news for readers and bad news for me. See, being friends with David Shenk means signing onto ...

Netflix’s period piece miniseries The Queen’s Gambit spans a decade in the life of fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy), a wunderkind whose natural aptitude for anticipating her ...

Chess isn't the type of game you instantly think of when considering the Xbox. This is the system of Halo and Riddick. As Xbox broadens its reach, a few more niche games are finding their way onto the ...

Once again New Hampshire is playing host to a competition full of pulse-pounding intensity, where every move can pave the way to victory, or shatter championship dreams. We're talking not about last ...

Oxymoronic as the whole notion may seem, chess hustlers are one of the pleasures of urban life. I’ve watched naive amateur players get taken for hard cash by well-masked intellectual killers in ...

One board is way too easy. Play like Kirk and Spock and unfold your game across seven boards, four of which are movable. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is ...

The New Year approaches — a time to celebrate and make resolutions for the year ahead, with the tacit understanding that, perhaps, all did not go according to plan during the previous 365 days. I ...

This is like an Andre 3000 song. What's cooler than robots? Lego robots. And what's even cooler than that? Supersized Lego robots playing chess. Composed of more than 100,000 Lego Mindstorms parts, ...