John Boylin, right, and Zach Hayden go over moves during the Huntington YMCA Chess Club’s Chess Fundamentals with Grandmaster Dariusz Swiercz camp on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, at the Phil cline YMCA ...

Sales of chess sets and chess books have surged in the three weeks following the debut of Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit," according to a new report by the NPD Group. The miniseries, which premiered on ...

HUNTINGTON — The Huntington YMCA Chess Club is hosting “Chess Fundamentals,” what organizers say is the first and only youth chess camp in West Virginia, this week. This three-day chess camp, which ...

The centuries-old game of chess is suddenly cool — thanks to Netflix hit “The Queen’s Gambit.” In the three weeks after “The Queen’s Gambit” premiered, unit sales of chess sets jumped 87% in the U.S.

Recently, the column delivered some insights into chess openings and the middle game. Each phase has had players who excelled in a superior fashion. After the middle game comes the ending. One name ...

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Born in Havana in 1888, former world chess champion José Capablanca is generally considered to be one of the top five players of all time. Such subsequent champions as Anatoly Karpov and Bobby Fischer ...