Two of the world’s best chess players took on 26 kids Monday in a match of speed chess, a prelude to a three-day invitational in Santa Rosa. The boy rested his head on a picnic table overlooking a ...

Soviet-Armenian grandmaster and a previous world chess champion, Tigran Petrosian was noted for his impenetrable defensive playing style. He was at times referred to as the drawing master. Petrosian ...

A chess Grandmaster has been banned from the Dubai Open Chess Tournament after being caught using an iPod touch running a chess app, reports Dubai Chess. Gaioz Nigalidze, winner of the Georgian ...

A chess grandmaster’s career is in the crapper after officials flushed out a smartphone he hid in a toilet to cheat during an international tournament. Georgian champ Gaioz Nigalidze was thrown out of ...

Most nights, Moscow’s Estrada Theater is alive and kicking with song-and-dance troupes. For the past two months, though, sellout crowds have packed the old hall to watch two men sit for hours at a ...