The poker table was down to three players. I had a queen and a 10. It wasn't the strongest hand, but I'd been analyzing my opponents' playing patterns and knew I needed to send an aggressive signal.

the recognition–action theory of chess skill holds that expertise in chess is due primarily to the ability to recognize familiar patterns of pieces. despite its widespread acclaim, empirical evidence ...

FIDE Master (FM) Shreyas Smith and FM Joshua Christie won the NM Thomas Figueroa Memorial Blitz Chess Championship and the CM Neil Fairclough Rapid Chess Championship, respectively. These two ...

Longtime fans of the Wu-Tang Clan know that GZA plays a mean game of chess. The MC has been a devoted chess player for many years now, and, alongside bandmate RZA, once played against a grandmaster ...

Indian chess prodigy Grandmaster D Gukesh won the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship on Monday, beating compatriot GM Raunak Sadhwani in the final by seven points. The world No 13 raked up a ...

In a clash that went into extra time, GM Vladimir Fedoseev got the better of young gun Alireza Firouzja to make the quarterfinals of the Speed Chess tournament late on Wednesday. In an encounter ...

Passengers travelling from IT station to CCS airport were in for a surprise when they saw boys and girls playing speed chess with a three-minute time control. The tournament was on in twin Metro ...

India's Nihal Sarin emerged winner in the Chess.com's 2020 Junior Speed Online Chess Championship after beating Russia's world junior No. 6 Alexey Sarana 18-7 in the final. The title win earned the 16 ...

Grand Street in Hoboken was hot with competition when more than 40 chess players of all ages went head-to-head in a tournament Sunday at the Play! Hoboken facility. The competition marked the club’s ...

India's R Vaishali on Sunday won the women's Speed chess online championship qualifier 2, beating Polina Shuvalova of Russia in the final. The 20-year-old from Chennai, a woman Grandmaster, became the ...

In a cute video for her latest single, “Romeo,” 2000s sample queen PinkPantheress blurs the lines between speed dating and speed chess at a tournament that could just as easily be a singles mixer. The ...