Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For centuries, chess experts have largely agreed that playing white offers a slight starting advantage over black. The standard ...

PARIS, March 12 (Reuters) - Finding chess boring? Try shuffling your pieces on the back rank and you get Chess960, or Freestyle chess, a variant of the game that favours creativity over preparation, ...

I read with interest your article “Is it checkmate for the standard version of chess?”. As the great-grandson of the mathematician Frank Morley, who started his life as an avid chess player at age 10, ...