On 23 February, the Cyprus Open Chess Championship ended in Nicosia. It was attended by 90 players, 52 of whom were juniors. Chess is becoming more and more popular in Cyprus and its national team is ...

MACON, Ga. — Every Wednesday morning at Roberts Academy, the day begins with a game — and a lesson in strategy. Mercer University chess club students lead weekly chess sessions for Roberts Academy ...

Chess pieces are assembled on a board at the Albany Chess Center on Sept. 19 in Colonie. Founder John Oyeyemi Fawole and his team operate the center seven days a week and run programming not just at ...

11 Indian chessboxing athletes were forced to miss the World Championships in Serbia after their visas weren’t processed in time, despite applying weeks in advance. The contingent waited outside the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Chess, apparently, is a water sport. In a stunt seen by millions on the internet, two West Michigan men waded into the Grand River this September to play a game of chess, soaking ...

Baseball has a way of sneaking magic into the margins. The game can sit still for hours, pitch after pitch, moving at a snail’s pace, until — in the blink of an eye — something extraordinary unfolds ...

Yes, the Detroit Tigers are up against it. Their backs are against the wall and their season is on the brink after the Seattle Mariners beat the Tigers, 8-4, to win Game 3 of the ALDS at Comerica Park ...

Detroit – This was the carrot, at least one of the carrots, that Casey Mize held in front himself during those long, dark rehab days as he was slogging his way back from two major surgeries. This was ...

COLONIE - Albany resident John Oyeyemi Fawole discovered his passion for chess as a teenager in his home country of Nigeria. He can still remember watching his friends play the game. "I was fascinated ...

Police in Washington, D.C., released more pictures of a third suspect accused in the killing of a Capitol Hill intern in June. Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, a 21-year-old student at the University of ...

Maybe you were one of the many people who began playing chess because you watched The Queen’s Gambit during the pandemic. Or maybe you attempted to play chess and realized: oh yeah, chess is actually ...

** Houston, we have a problem … For the second Tuesday in a row, Ohio State coach Ryan Day was asked what's going on with sophomore defensive tackle Eddrick Houston. Houston has been supplanted as a ...