BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A unique chess match began Monday with an astronaut challenging Earthlings.
ROME, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Researchers say an early guide to playing the game of chess might have been illustrated by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Chess got a little bit cooler at the Hip-Hop Chess Federation’s First Annual Chess Kings Tournament in Oakland, Calif.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Indian chess player Viswanathan Anand is the newest world chess champion thanks to a dominating performance at the championship in Mexico.
LONDON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Unseasonably warm weather in Europe has done more than put a dent in skiing -- it nearly melted a London-Moscow chess match that used pieces carved from ice.
TURIN, Italy, June 7 (UPI) -- A chess tournament in Turin, Italy, reportedly turned into a brawl between two grandmasters enamored over Australian chess queen Arianne Caoili.
PEORIA, Ill., June 6 (UPI) -- A Morton, Ill., man, after 14 years of collecting, boasts an impressive array of chess sets from all around the world.
CROSSVILLE, Tenn., April 2 (UPI) -- Chess is becoming more popular with U.S. children, the Crossville, Tenn.-based U.S. Chess Federation says.
TOKYO, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Japanese chess champion Miyoko Watai admitted in an interview she decided to marry U.S. chess master Bobby Fischer to prevent his expulsion.
EAST LANSING, Mich., June 3 (UPI) -- Split-second intuition is key to the making of a chess master, not long bouts filled with deliberation, said a Michigan State University researcher.
