One has to be better than good to win at the World Chess Championship. One has to be nearly perfect. Fabiano Caruana, the world No. 2, was reminded of that today in his eighth game against the ...
“Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn’t make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be!” If you ask a chess player to elucidate this inspiring quote ...
On an uncharacteristically warm November evening, a preeminent Harvard statistician sat at a small round table in his office, across from an equally-accomplished colleague in the mathematics ...
Win, lose, or draw, chess players immensely enjoy the challenge of every game. Elementary school tournament players are concentrating on their games during the Alabama Scholastic Chess Individual and ...
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 ...