Strange things happen in Hamburg all the time. On the second weekend in January, at the Brahms-Kontor building — an Art Deco marvel in the city centre — Germany’s highest level of competitive team ...

This post was written with Nada Saaidia and David J. Grüning. Chess is mental torture. — Garry Kasparov Why play chess if it is torture, as Kasparov testified? One view is that chess is a social trap ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Online chess has exploded in popularity since the Netflix ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When most people think of chess, they picture elderly gentlemen hunched over boards in the park, contemplating their next move in peaceful quiet. While this ...

I’m embarrassed to admit this in my mid-forties, but I’ve never understood chess well enough to play a full game. My son and daughter both learned how to play in elementary school. I was glad they had ...