Whether you dream of unbeatable openings or don't know the difference between a pawn and a rook, there's a chess game that's right for you somewhere in New York City. At the venues listed below, you ...

Board games cover a lot of ground; they can be as simple as checkers, or as complex as Monopoly. They can even revolve around the collection of cards, such as in Magic the Gathering. Ironically, many ...

Different people drift towards the world of video gaming for varying reasons. Some see it as an escape from the dreary nature of 'real life' and adore the opportunity to be someone or something else ...

Growing up in Tiburon, Ladia Jirasek felt like an outsider who didn’t quite fit in with other kids his age who were more interested in playing sports than chess, which he began learning when he was 9 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Who thought your latest favorite style icon would be a chess player? Chess is having a moment thanks to Netflix's The Queen's ...

In this weird, disjointed year, for the world of chess and the world in general, there are still plenty of reasons for our annual Thanksgiving count-your-blessings column. • Be grateful for the ...

Saitek's Mephisto Maestro Travel Chess Computer showed me that I'm really, really rusty at chess. The Maestro sells for around $100 (Cdn.) and looks a lot like a Palm computer on steroids. It's got ...

One wrong move. That’s all it takes to flip a chess match on its head—and on Sunday, it did exactly that. At the Norway Chess tournament, the unthinkable happened. Legendary Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen ...