The monthly Chess Life and bi-monthly Chess Life Kids (formerly School Mates and Chess Life for Kids) are the official magazines published by the United...

granted for life. The international chess governing body FIDE grants several titles, the most prestigious of which is Grandmaster; many national chess federations...

such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Most of the...

Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...

The rook (/rʊk/; ♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess. It may move any number of squares horizontally or vertically without jumping, and it may capture...

1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight...

magazines: Chess Life and Chess Life Kids. The USCF was founded and incorporated in Illinois in 1939, from the merger of two older chess organizations...

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject...

notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...

When annotating chess games, commentators frequently use widely recognized annotation symbols. Question marks and exclamation points that denote a move...

a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of...

chess or esports. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor. The Elo system was invented as an improved chess-rating...

The US Chess Championship is an invitational tournament organized by the United States Chess Federation to determine the country's chess champion. It...

The bishop (♗, ♝) is a piece in the game of chess. It moves and captures along diagonals without jumping over interfering pieces. Each player begins the...

draw In chess, there are a number of ways that a game can end in a draw, neither player winning. Draws are codified by various rules of chess including...

The Universal Chess Interface (UCI) is an open communication protocol that enables chess engines to communicate with user interfaces. In November 2000...

an American chess player. He was awarded the FIDE Master title in 2011 and the International Master title in 2015. Rosen began playing chess as a child...

The game of chess is commonly divided into three phases: the opening, middlegame, and endgame. There is a large body of theory regarding how the game...

Andrew Tate Jr. (December 27, 1958 – October 17, 2015) was an American chess player who held the title of International Master. He was the father of...

Several methods have been suggested for comparing the greatest chess players in history. There is agreement on a statistical system to rate the strengths...

How Life Imitates Chess is a book by former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov. Kasparov uses his experience in playing chess successfully as an analogy...

the story follows the life of Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy), a fictional American chess prodigy on her rise to the top of the chess world while struggling...

are the results of the U.S. Women's Chess Championship from 1937 to date. The tournament determines the woman chess champion of the United States. 1937...

A chess clock is a device that comprises two adjacent clocks with buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, so that the two clocks never run...

Hans Moke Niemann (born June 20, 2003) is an American chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. He first entered the top 100 junior players list on March...

Human chess, living chess or live chess is a form of chess in which people take the place of pieces. The game is typically played outdoors, either on a...

title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain...

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...

on Chess's Most Famous Pros". Oprah Magazine. Retrieved February 14, 2021. Sarah Beth Cohen, Tevis —May 1983, December 25, 2020, citing Chess Life interview...

of his life, and that the decline in his mental health may have led to his disappearance. This section uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves...