Soundarya Pradhan, 22, the blind chess genius from Nuapada district has developed a website that is friendly and accessible for blind chess players. Soundarya Pradhan won a gold medal in the ninth ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Magnus Carlsen, the 22-year-old Norwegian chess genius, has taken the world championship title, becoming the ...

Netflix released the trailer for limited series “The Queen’s Gambit” on Thursday, showing the struggle Anya Taylor-Joy’s Beth Harmon faces as she tries to conquer the male-dominated world of ...

Sept. 10 -- It's a story of wizardry, secrecy and high-speed moves in a game that has room for both geniuses and fools. For 30 years, U.S. chess genius and the world's most famous chess recluse, Bobby ...

The first sign that all was not well came an hour and 13 minutes into the film. Daniel Naroditsky, chess genius and YouTube sensation, placed his head in his hands as the camera continued to whirr.

We learned a lot binge-watching Netflix's hit series The Queen's Gambit, which centers around orphaned chess prodigy Beth Harmon. From the excitement involved in a seemingly boring match of chess to ...

Even if your knowledge of chess is limited to that scene in the first Harry Potter movie, there's one chess player whose name you probably know. Bobby Fischer was such an iconic American player that ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice. In the summer of 1972, the world's attention was ...

Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic American chess genius who became a Cold War hero with his 1972 defeat of Soviet champion Boris Spassky but fell from grace in later decades when he became a recluse and ...