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.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 28 (UPI) -- British chess prodigy Jessie Gilbert has died after falling from an eighth-floor hotel window in the Czech Republic.
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.
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.
TRIPOLI, Libya, July 12 (UPI) -- The battle for the chess world championship got under way in Libya Monday between a Britain's Michael Adams and Uzbekistan's Rustam Kasimdzhanov.
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.
