For a moment in the midst of the Cold War, it looked a little bit like chess would take over the world — or at least politics. In 1972, an emblematic Soviet and underdog American battled it out on an ...

Is anybody better at playing a dotty, preoccupied genius than Tobey Maguire? His brow’s worried furrows and unsettlingly inward-gazing eyes made him convincingly uncanny as the natural born writer in ...

Social network for chess fans Chesspark is merging with that other online chess community site, Chess.com, the two companies announced last night. Chess.com is making the transition easy, as former ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice. In the summer of 1972, the world's attention was ...