The rift between FIDE and Freestyle Chess has been growing, and it came to a head on Monday when peace talks between the two factions collapsed. Carlsen's trainer, Peter Heine Nielsen, further stoked ...

Lindsborg? Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev came to the Kansas prairie Saturday to promote Chess for Peace, an international initiative to use the ancient game to find common ground among ...

In the final months of peace the great Balkan chess game took a surprising turn as two big regional powers—Bulgaria and Romania—suddenly switched sides. For decades, the basic alignment had ...