The first machine had a vertical board. Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position. The human’s lone black king ...

The lesson this week is that king-pawn endgames often devolve into a race. The fat king usually loses. Reach Eric Morrow at ...

King Henry VIII was not very fast. Neither was King George III, among others. Power perhaps is fattening or a heavy burden, ...

Or maybe you attempted to play chess and realized ... and eventually checkmate their king. Don't let them put your king into checkmate. Each piece type has its own movement pattern that can ...

“If he continues to love chess the way he does now ... bishop diagonally and places it five squares away from the black king. It’s a check. His rival, four-year-old Anish Sarkar, sitting ...

CHENNAI: Not many would ever imagine that a small boy, all of just seven years old, watching his idol Viswanathan Anand play ...