In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin was in London making a last attempt to avoid war. A certain Lady Caroline Howe invited Franklin to her home to play a friendly chess game, “fancying she could beat ...

Data from 160,000 ranked chess players and more than 5 million chess matches suggest that women playing against men perform better than expected based on their official chess ratings, according to new ...

Chess in India is at a good place: There are young players rising up quickly, like Gukesh D and R Praggnanandhaa; India hosted the Chess Olympiad last year and secured two medals; and it played a big ...

We've long maintained that chess is one of the least aggressive gentleman's sports, just a wee bit behind Horseshoes on the blood-and-sweat chart. Who could find fault in benign chess players? But no ...

“There’s a general feeling that men are more suitable,” she adds. “Some people still believe women are not strong enough to lead a team.” ‘It’s not down to biology’ Women are sorely underrepresented ...

These are boom times for chess. Boards are sold out. Bookstores can’t keep how-tos on the shelves. The reason: Beth Harmon, a Kentucky-orphan-turned-chess-prodigy who in the 1950s and ’60s dominated ...

The battle of the sexes has spilled over into chess. In a novel approach to testing gender differences in achievement, an Australian researcher has compared the past three decades of male and female ...

Sean Gallup / Getty Images Rugby, swimming, track and field — transgender women have been banned from international women’s events in a growing number of sports. The latest to make that list is chess.