The lesson this week is that king-pawn endgames often devolve into a race. The fat king usually loses. Reach Eric Morrow at ...

Maybe you were one of the many people who began playing chess ... as white, and your goal is to use your pieces to take your opponent's black pieces, and eventually checkmate their king.

The first machine had a vertical board. Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position. The human’s lone black king ...

Chess is played between two opposing armies, black and white. The ultimate goal of the game is to check or checkmate the other King. It happens when the King gets locked in a position to be ...

“If he continues to love chess the way he does now ... in the process opening up a direct passage for his bishop to the white king. A reverse check. Barua’s mouth opens a little in an ...

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, ...