Cue BBC Two’s Chess Masters: the Endgame, complete with ominous music, expert commentators talking us through moves in hushed ...

Chess is highly interesting and a game that ... The Knight can jump over other pieces while moving. 5. The Castle or Rook can move any number of squares forward or backward across.

Ding Liren's reckless rook move - 55.Rf2 - in the final of the world championships took the chess world, and his opponent, by surprise. By moving his rook from f4 to f2, Gukesh was able to take it ...

The self-destruction of the Austrian army in 1788 caused Austria to lose the Battle of Karansebes to the Turks. Karansebes is in modern day Romania. Austrian soldiers mistook each other for the enemy, ...

The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position ... although it could take up to 63 moves, and standard chess rules would call a draw on 50 moves without a capture ...

The Elo (chess ranking estimate ... to create weaknesses or activate his rook. His 2016 game against Karjakin (Game 10, World Championship) featured an h-pawn push to disrupt Black’s kingside, a move ...

A tactic used in a 1960 victory over countryman David Bronstein, in which Mr. Spassky sacrificed a rook to open an attack on Bronstein’s king, was copied in a chess ... a clever move by his ...

To casual observers, chess could seem boring. To Ben Foley, chess is an exciting game that can impart many valuable lessons. He says it teaches kids to concentrate, exercise patience, think critically ...

Gukesh Dommaraju (Tata Steel Chess Tournament Photo) The advantage was now entirely in Gukesh’s hands, and he capitalised immediately, playing Nxg3 on move 30. With no escape from the mounting ...

R Praggnanandhaa and Aravindh Chithambaram drew their respective games in the sixth round of the Prague Masters Chess tournament ... Republic defeated Divya in a rook-and-minor-piece endgame ...

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Bobby Fischer sparked American chess interest; today, the Saint Louis Chess Club hosts top U.S. players in a significant tournament.