Two dozen programmers from around the world have signed up to compete in Germany next month in the first computer chess tournament devoted to Chess960, a game variant invented by fugitive chess genius ...

Organizers of this week's World Fischer Random Chess Championship have introduced unprecedented new security measures to prevent cheating. Among the tighter measures at the tournament which starts on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For centuries, chess experts have largely agreed that playing white offers a slight starting advantage over black. The standard ...