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

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 ...

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 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, ...

In the above chess board, white is to make the move to checkmate ... Start by identifying the opponent's king. Look for pieces that can checkmate the king. Consider the opponent's pieces that ...

“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 ...