The poker table was down to three players. I had a queen and a 10. It wasn't the strongest hand, but I'd been analyzing my opponents' playing patterns and knew I needed to send an aggressive signal.

Split Tree, Killer Queen, There Shall Be Lancing and Bennett Foddy's Speed Chess will be making their debut at the second installment of South by No Quarter, presented by Juegos Rancheros. The event ...

The $100,000 Online Speed Chess Championship, a 16-player knockout match event, is underway. Norwegian world champion Magnus Carlsen reached the quarterfinals by defeating Iranian qualifier Parham ...

the recognition–action theory of chess skill holds that expertise in chess is due primarily to the ability to recognize familiar patterns of pieces. despite its widespread acclaim, empirical evidence ...

June 16, 2004 -- Watching a chess match may seem about as exciting as watching paint dry, but new research shows that a champion's brain works at lightning fast speed, making decisions in seconds that ...

Longtime fans of the Wu-Tang Clan know that GZA plays a mean game of chess. The MC has been a devoted chess player for many years now, and, alongside bandmate RZA, once played against a grandmaster ...

FIDE Master (FM) Shreyas Smith and FM Joshua Christie won the NM Thomas Figueroa Memorial Blitz Chess Championship and the CM Neil Fairclough Rapid Chess Championship, respectively. These two ...

Indian chess prodigy Grandmaster D Gukesh won the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship on Monday, beating compatriot GM Raunak Sadhwani in the final by seven points. The world No 13 raked up a ...

India's Nihal Sarin emerged winner in the Chess.com's 2020 Junior Speed Online Chess Championship after beating Russia's world junior No. 6 Alexey Sarana 18-7 in the final. The title win earned the 16 ...

Grand Street in Hoboken was hot with competition when more than 40 chess players of all ages went head-to-head in a tournament Sunday at the Play! Hoboken facility. The competition marked the club’s ...