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Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...

Daniel Naroditsky at the FIDE World Rapid Championship on Dec. 28, 2024 in New York, NY.Lennart Ootes—Getty Images In July, the American grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky played a speed chess game against ...

Based on Stefan Zweig’s haunting novella, The Royal Game, Chess Story is a one-man retelling of the Austrian author’s famous last work. Set during World War II, the story follows a lawyer who is ...

At the age of 3 years, 7 months and 20 days, a kindergartner from India has become the youngest chess player to earn an official rating from the sport’s international governing body. Sarwagya Singh ...

Gilead is hoping to break ground early next year on its Chess Hatch campus as part of its plans to expand its presence in Foster City. The company has been headquartered in Foster City for years, and ...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - Hans Niemann quite literally made a splash on Wednesday, winning an underwater chess exhibition as festivities opened for the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals in Cape Town, where ...

Two hours and 45 minutes with one intermission. At the Imperial Theatre, 249 W. 45th St. By the time the curtain rises at the Imperial Theatre, the revival of “Chess” has already given up. The set, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher took a break from navigating their onstage rivalries to engage in some (mostly) friendly competition. Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit ...

A Brooklyn developer with projects on both sides of the East River has now filed plans for one in Williamsburg. Cheskel Schwimmer of the real estate firm Chess Builders submitted permits last week to ...

Danny Rensch is at the vanguard of chess. He, alongside a few others, has helped to develop the sport from one which was played by the elites to a phenomenon that has exploded in recent years, ...

The Russian chess master accused by his peers of bullying Daniel Naroditsky, the U.S. grandmaster who was found dead last week, has himself been hit with unfounded cheating allegations in the past — a ...