Opening The Rook & Pawn created some serious stress for the couple. Because they serve food, every finite detail had to be accounted for upon opening.

Levon Aronian is an Armenian-American chess player who has been at the top of chess world since he was 17 years old. Now a ...

A pawn. A knight. A rook. A queen. All sacrificed in one chess game. What a feast! One can play such a game perhaps only once in a lifetime. Cascade of Sacrifices The mating attack in the ...

The White King on h5 is completely on his own, with only the Bishop on f4 and Knight on e5 being of any help in his defence. Notice how the Bishop on f1 and Rook on h1 are still out of play.

Tables are set up with boards, each person maneuvering and machinating while Nakamura takes them all on at the same time. Pawn threatens knight! King takes rook! Knight threatens king! Checkmate!

This, too, evaporated. The players agreed to a draw in the position below, as white’s knight and black’s rook were caught in an endless, repetitious dance.

David’s primary goal was to design chainmail chess pieces that closely resembled traditional chess pieces while ensuring that each of the six different designs—pawn, rook, knight, bishop ...