News about Chess, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Gata Kamsky and Irina Krush won the United States Championships in St. Louis, both of them for the third time in four years.
The World Chess Federation announced that the title game in November will be in the hometown of the defending champion, Viswanathan Anand, and his challenger isn’t happy.
The announcement came as the number of cheating accusations has mounted, including one at the Cork Congress Chess Open in Ireland the led to an altercation in a bathroom.
The Alekhine Memorial tournament merges chess and art by holding games at both the Tuileries Garden in Paris and the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
The Alekhine Memorial tournament merges chess and art by holding games at both the Tuileries Garden in Paris and the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
When he isn’t advocating for political change in Russia, Garry Kasparov is leading a campaign to include chess classes in schools around the world.
Robert Byrne, an international grandmaster and United States chess champion who, as the chess columnist for The New York Times, analyzed top-flight matches from 1972 through 2006, the eras of Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov, died on Friday at his home in Ossining, N.Y. He was 84.
The cause was Parkinson’s disease, said Joyce Dopkeen, a friend.
Mr. Byrne analyzed top-flight matches and wrote a chess column for The New York Times from 1972 to 2006.
Edward R. Murrow High School won its division in the scholastic championships last week, and Webster University of St. Louis was the Final Four of College Chess title winner.
Chess has its superstars, but on a wider stage, there is no one like Magnus Carlsen, who uses his intelligence, looks and charm to increase his profile outside of the game, as if he were a tennis or golf star.
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